{"id":22904,"date":"2015-12-30T13:50:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T18:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22904"},"modified":"2015-12-30T14:02:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T19:02:59","slug":"a-very-rock-town-hall-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/a-very-rock-town-hall-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Rock Town Hall New Year&#8217;s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22905\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22905\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-22905 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dick-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Dick Clark in Times Square, New Year's Eve 1988. \" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dick-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dick-420x299.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dick.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dick Clark in Times Square, New Year&#8217;s Eve 1988.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>New Year&#8217;s Eve has always, for me, been the worst of holidays. I don&#8217;t know which scenario is worse, spending way too much money to\u00a0slowly realize that this is just an average night out, or staying home and imagining all the fun that revelers are having while you wait for Dick Clark to arrive in Times Square.<\/p>\n<p>The best New Year&#8217;s Eve celebrations I have had are with friends. A gathering of twenty or thirty people, some beer and wine, and the odd pair of funny glasses. Oh, and music.<\/p>\n<p>New Year&#8217;s Eve doesn&#8217;t have the same grand musical tradition that Christmas does, but there are New Year&#8217;s Eve songs. Let&#8217;s imagine, for a moment, that RTH is throwing a party tomorrow night. What&#8217;s on the playlist?<\/p>\n<p>If you know about the RTH Christmas, you know the drill: nominate a song. Once it is seconded by another RTHer it is in. We continue until we have fifteen songs.<\/p>\n<p>To kick it off, I nominate Dick Haymes and Les Paul&#8217;s version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M6QtQpO_BLs\">What Are You Doing New Years Eve?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Year&#8217;s Eve has always, for me, been the worst of holidays. I don&#8217;t know which scenario is worse, spending way too much money to\u00a0slowly realize that this is just an average night out, or staying home and imagining all the fun that revelers are having while you wait for Dick Clark to arrive in <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/a-very-rock-town-hall-new-years-eve\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22904"}],"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\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}