{"id":2078,"date":"2009-03-26T07:56:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T11:56:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-03-26T07:56:10","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T07:56:10","slug":"swan-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/swan-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Swan Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/CreamGoodbye.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">See ya later, alligator!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>What&#8217;s your favorite <strong><em>planned<\/em> farewell album<\/strong>? Final albums by bands that simply broke up for whatever reason, including death of a key member, do not count. I&#8217;m talking albums that were released with clear knowledge that this would be the band&#8217;s swan song. I&#8217;m not sure how many albums there are that fit in this category, such as Cream&#8217;s <em>Goodbye Cream<\/em>, so we&#8217;ll count any album that was released as a &#8220;final&#8221; album before any one of <strong>David Bowie<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;retirements.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See ya later, alligator! What&#8217;s your favorite planned farewell album? Final albums by bands that simply broke up for whatever reason, including death of a key member, do not count. I&#8217;m talking albums that were released with clear knowledge that this would be the band&#8217;s swan song. I&#8217;m not sure how many albums there are <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/swan-songs\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}