{"id":22959,"date":"2016-01-11T06:59:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T11:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22959"},"modified":"2016-01-12T15:25:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T20:25:48","slug":"david-bowie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/david-bowie\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bowie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-22960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160111_063711-315x420.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160111_063711\" width=\"315\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160111_063711-315x420.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160111_063711-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160111_063711-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_20160111_063711.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><br \/>\nJust read that David Bowie died. Just this Saturday I was watching the Ziggy Stardust concert film and marveling at how fiercely his fans connected with him. I have spent years poking at the fact that, although I acknowledge his music is great and I love much of it, that I still couldn&#8217;t embrace Bowie. On New Year&#8217;s Eve this came up with old friends. I was reminded of the fan club insert that came with my copy of ChangesOne, one of the 3 greatest greatest hits albums in rock His fashion\/mime thing never appealed to me and explained every gross misstep I would spot in a mostly excellent catalog. I used to wish he could just play music and stop making proto-Zoolander faces. What I&#8217;ve learned in just the last few years is that his entire Bowie thing wasn&#8217;t for my benefit &#8211; and that was OK. I finally realized how beautiful his thing was for the people he served. Beyond his excellent catalog, I&#8217;m glad to have him as a guide for people near and dear to me, and even as a guide for my own alien self.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just read that David Bowie died. Just this Saturday I was watching the Ziggy Stardust concert film and marveling at how fiercely his fans connected with him. I have spent years poking at the fact that, although I acknowledge his music is great and I love much of it, that I still couldn&#8217;t embrace Bowie. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/david-bowie\/' 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":[153,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22959"}],"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=22959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}