{"id":23053,"date":"2016-03-15T12:36:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23053"},"modified":"2016-03-15T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T16:36:07","slug":"so-this-is-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/so-this-is-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"So, This Is Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back we tried to determine\u2014once and for all\u2014what the best rock &amp; roll Christmas song is. Maybe next year\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Now, it\u2019s a new season, a new holiday but\u2026are there any rock &amp; roll Easter songs??? I can\u2019t really think of any. Yes, there are songs from <em>Jesus Christ Superstar.<\/em>\u00a0I guess they qualify. And Dylan went Gospel and was <em>Saved<\/em> (\u201cby the blood of the lamb\u201d), that\u2019s somewhat Easterish, as are many gospel songs.<\/p>\n<p>But where is, say, the &#8220;Jingle Bell Rock&#8221; of Easter? Or even the &#8220;Sock It To Me Santa&#8221; of Lent? The &#8220;Dreidl Dreidl Dreidl&#8221; of Passover? I can\u2019t think of them; can you?<\/p>\n<p>And if not, let\u2019s be creative. Can we call this an Easter song?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4MyJHh451Y4\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(And, if nothing else, this lip-sync\u2019ed video presents the most sedate rock &amp; roll audience ever; they are much more suited to a crucifixion.)<\/p>\n<p>Your turn, be creative, what can we pretend is a rock &amp; roll Easter song?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months back we tried to determine\u2014once and for all\u2014what the best rock &amp; roll Christmas song is. Maybe next year\u2026 Now, it\u2019s a new season, a new holiday but\u2026are there any rock &amp; roll Easter songs??? I can\u2019t really think of any. Yes, there are songs from Jesus Christ Superstar.\u00a0I guess they qualify. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/so-this-is-easter\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[1029],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23053"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}