{"id":2135,"date":"2009-04-25T00:31:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T04:31:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-27T12:00:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T12:00:29","slug":"50-songs-for-50-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/50-songs-for-50-states\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Songs for 50 States?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/onceandforall.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/onceandforall.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p><em>We have done it. ONCE AND FOR ALL, Rock Town Hall identifies 50 song titles containing each of the 50 US states. And we accomplished this without resorting to gimmicks like John Linnell&#8217;s album on the 50 states. Bravo, Townspeople! Follow the hard work that went into this effort following the jump!<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-aatH6idMIs?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Excluding all songs from They Might Be Giants&#8217; <strong>John Linnell<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>The Songs of the 50 States<\/em> and any other theme album that would make this effort too easy, <strong>can we name 50 rock\/soul songs with each of the 50 states <em>in the song title?<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>NO REPEATS, please. <\/p>\n<p>To start things off &#8211; and to rob <strong>Townsman BigSteve<\/strong> of his chance to cite a show tune cover song by his favorite, overrated, bass player-less &#8217;60s band &#8211; I&#8217;ll go with a song containing the name of the first US state in alphabetical order: <strong>&#8220;Alabama Getaway.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have done it. ONCE AND FOR ALL, Rock Town Hall identifies 50 song titles containing each of the 50 US states. And we accomplished this without resorting to gimmicks like John Linnell&#8217;s album on the 50 states. Bravo, Townspeople! Follow the hard work that went into this effort following the jump!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[125,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135"}],"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=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}