{"id":22495,"date":"2015-06-22T12:50:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22495"},"modified":"2015-06-22T12:50:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:50:32","slug":"once-and-for-all-whats-the-best-song-about-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/once-and-for-all-whats-the-best-song-about-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Once and for All<\/em>&#8230;What&#8217;s the Best Song About Summer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zheKf16J8RI\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve spent many summers in the Halls of Rock, yet I don&#8217;t believe we&#8217;ve ever determined&#8230;<em>once and for all<\/em>&#8230;the <strong>best<\/strong> song about summer. Not your favorite song about summer, but the best, objectively speaking, according to the following criteria\u2014and probably then some:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Groove that most feels like summer (real summer, not that winter-like summer I hear they experience south of the equator)<\/li>\n<li>Lyrics that best represent summer experiences and observations<\/li>\n<li>Appropriateness for all summer activities, regardless of individual tastes and north-of-the-equator geography<\/li>\n<li>Evocative power of the song title<\/li>\n<li>Most appropriate complimentary image of performing artist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I look forward to settling this debate&#8230;<em>once and for all<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve spent many summers in the Halls of Rock, yet I don&#8217;t believe we&#8217;ve ever determined&#8230;once and for all&#8230;the best song about summer. Not your favorite song about summer, but the best, objectively speaking, according to the following criteria\u2014and probably then some: Groove that most feels like summer (real summer, not that winter-like summer I <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/once-and-for-all-whats-the-best-song-about-summer\/' 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":[88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22495"}],"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=22495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}