{"id":21612,"date":"2014-05-22T08:31:35","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T12:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=21612"},"modified":"2014-05-22T15:59:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T19:59:18","slug":"fever-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/fever-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Fever Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o9Gj8earX_w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nI will forever associate this song with a few days I spent sick as a dog in a little house in the mountain town of my Italian relatives. On my cousins&#8217; boom box I was able to pick up some station that played a loop of a the same dozen songs, including this, PiL&#8217;s &#8220;Poptones,&#8221; and the New York Dolls&#8217; &#8220;Personality Crisis.&#8221; Not a bad soundtrack to my fever dreams. I even taped those dozen songs to bring home with me. That loop inspired what I feel was one of the first really good songs I ever wrote. I wrote the lyrics in that little bedroom and actually remembered enough of the tune to figure out the chords when I got back home.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever experienced\u00a0an especially memorable loop of songs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will forever associate this song with a few days I spent sick as a dog in a little house in the mountain town of my Italian relatives. On my cousins&#8217; boom box I was able to pick up some station that played a loop of a the same dozen songs, including this, PiL&#8217;s &#8220;Poptones,&#8221; <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/fever-dreams\/' 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":[208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21612"}],"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=21612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}