{"id":2233,"date":"2009-07-01T13:20:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T17:20:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-16T10:50:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T10:50:07","slug":"battle-royale-on-canada-day-rock-town-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-on-canada-day-rock-town-ha\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Royale: On Canada Day, Rock Town Hall Asks, &#8220;Who is the most Canadian of Canadian rock &#8216;n rollers?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-aNOt-ot1Mc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nTo <strong>Townsman Northvan<\/strong> and other Townspeople north of the border, we wish you a happy Canada Day! Americans have long had a hard time figuring out who&#8217;s Canadian in the entertainment world and other walks of life. Along these lines, I&#8217;d like to know the answer to the following question: <em>Who is the most Canadian of Canadian rock &#8216;n rollers?<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>The Band<\/strong>, love &#8217;em or leave &#8217;em, for instance, have no chance in this <strong>Battle Royale<\/strong>; they spent too much time doing Civil War re-enactments. <strong>Neil Young<\/strong>, who&#8217;s also spent what seems to be an inordinate amount of time playing West Coast Hippie and Yankee, also seems to be a longshot, but what do I know? How about <strong>Sloan<\/strong>? Do their occasional British Invasion affectations detract from their Canadian-ness or strengthen it, as part of the country&#8217;s preference for &#8220;UK&#8221; spellings?<\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0lpVjXwAfm0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nMy guess is this will come down to a Battle Royale between <strong>Rush<\/strong> and <strong>The Guess Who<\/strong>, but again, what do I know? What do I know about what it means to be Canadian let alone the most Canadian of Canadian rock &#8216;n rollers?<\/p>\n<p>For this special Canada Day edition Battle Royale, I&#8217;m calling on all Canadians to enter the Halls of Rock and help us identify the most Canadian of Canadian rock &#8216;n rollers. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Townsman Northvan and other Townspeople north of the border, we wish you a happy Canada Day! Americans have long had a hard time figuring out who&#8217;s Canadian in the entertainment world and other walks of life. Along these lines, I&#8217;d like to know the answer to the following question: Who is the most Canadian <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-on-canada-day-rock-town-ha\/' 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":[42,177,121,225],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233"}],"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=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}