{"id":2414,"date":"2009-11-13T09:11:30","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T14:11:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-13T09:11:30","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T09:11:30","slug":"1977-toward-a-more-accurate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/1977-toward-a-more-accurate\/","title":{"rendered":"1977: Toward a More Accurate Representation of the Nation&#8217;s Mood, in Rock Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5uNG0IG7fbw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pablocruiseband.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;This quartet has never been so tight.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Critics often point to <strong>The Clash<\/strong> singing &#8220;No Elvis, Beatles, or The Rolling Stones&#8221; in &#8220;1977&#8221; as some spot-on representation of the mood that fueled punk rock, but I think this 1977 promotional clip for the <strong>Pablo Cruise<\/strong> song &#8220;Whatcha Gonna Do&#8221; says a lot more about the times and the need for the already-ongoing punk rock reaction. <em>What do you think, is there a more accurate representation of the nation&#8217;s mood, in rock terms, circa 1977?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This quartet has never been so tight.&#8221; Critics often point to The Clash singing &#8220;No Elvis, Beatles, or The Rolling Stones&#8221; in &#8220;1977&#8221; as some spot-on representation of the mood that fueled punk rock, but I think this 1977 promotional clip for the Pablo Cruise song &#8220;Whatcha Gonna Do&#8221; says a lot more about the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/1977-toward-a-more-accurate\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414"}],"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=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}