{"id":2403,"date":"2009-11-03T18:00:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T23:00:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-03T22:50:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T22:50:52","slug":"interview-liars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/interview-liars\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Liars"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iaysTVcounI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Hey everyone, let&#8217;s name some notable rock folks who almost certainly tell lies frequently when being interviewed. <b>Steely Dan<\/b> have long mastered the art of turning Q&amp;As into their own personal Marx Brothers routines. I am convinced that <b>Paul Westerberg<\/b> routinely changes his answers to questions about The Replacements, possibly out of boredom. I bet both PW and the Dan learned their craft by studying <b>Bob Dylan<\/b> interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Also, who should start lying more when being interviewed? <b>Rollins<\/b>, yes. <b>The Boss<\/b>, sure. <b>Paul McCartney<\/b>, definitely.<\/p>\n<p>(I&#8217;ll admit that my interest in this topic is partially due to disenfranchisement with the whole interviewing thing, the idea that you can get an even minor rock star to provide a &#8220;teachable moment&#8221; by revealing something about themselves and their art. It&#8217;s not so much that it&#8217;s impossible, but do people care anymore? Maybe some rockers may reveal more of themselves when they&#8217;re covering up their tracks.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everyone, let&#8217;s name some notable rock folks who almost certainly tell lies frequently when being interviewed. Steely Dan have long mastered the art of turning Q&amp;As into their own personal Marx Brothers routines. I am convinced that Paul Westerberg routinely changes his answers to questions about The Replacements, possibly out of boredom. I bet <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/interview-liars\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"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\/2403"}],"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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}