{"id":2102,"date":"2009-04-03T23:27:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T03:27:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-03T23:27:20","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T23:27:20","slug":"almost-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/almost-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this 1974 clip by a Mickey Most-produced Glam band called <strong>Arrow<\/strong>. See what you think of it.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fUqDbz1Q1Dw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>What I found fascinating in my initial viewing is how close these guys are to being <strong>good<\/strong> while falling just short of that mark at every turn. See if you don&#8217;t agree and can&#8217;t help me identify some of the points in this song where they drop the ball. I&#8217;ll think about this some more and try to give them my advice &#8211; 25 years too late!<\/p>\n<p>If you disagree with my premise and find this an undeniably good song, feel free to give me hell. As I watched this I couldn&#8217;t help but think what <strong>Sweet<\/strong>, for instance, might have done to turn this bad boy into a hit song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this 1974 clip by a Mickey Most-produced Glam band called Arrow. See what you think of it. What I found fascinating in my initial viewing is how close these guys are to being good while falling just short of that mark at every turn. See if you don&#8217;t agree and can&#8217;t help <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/almost-good\/' 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":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102"}],"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=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}