{"id":2114,"date":"2009-04-09T10:15:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T14:15:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-09T12:16:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T12:16:13","slug":"rock-town-hall-strives-to-improve-rock-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-town-hall-strives-to-improve-rock-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Town Hall Strives to Improve Rock Criticism Through Avoidance of Rock-Crit Cliches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/somegirls.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"274\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Townsman Mwall<\/strong>&#8216;s recent cautionary comment about another Townsman&#8217;s use of a cliche in <em>his<\/em> comment reminded of another of our objectives, beyond those of science and healing, on Rock Town Hall: the improvement of rock criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Although we could boast of our daily examples of leadership by example, it may be helpful, every few months, to concentrate a thread on a specific area of rock criticism that is in need of improvement. Today, let&#8217;s examine <strong>rock-crit cliches<\/strong> and see if there are alternatives to phrases like <em>It&#8217;s [artist&#8217;s] best album since [last actually great album]&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The rock-crit community thanks us in advance for our efforts.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townsman Mwall&#8216;s recent cautionary comment about another Townsman&#8217;s use of a cliche in his comment reminded of another of our objectives, beyond those of science and healing, on Rock Town Hall: the improvement of rock criticism. Although we could boast of our daily examples of leadership by example, it may be helpful, every few months, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-town-hall-strives-to-improve-rock-c\/' 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":[160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114"}],"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=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}