{"id":2489,"date":"2010-01-05T03:58:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T08:58:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-01-05T09:38:36","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T09:38:36","slug":"congratulations-townsman-rickmassimo-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/congratulations-townsman-rickmassimo-her\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Townsman Rick Massimo! Here&#8217;s Some Non-Sucky Wedding Music for You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HzU2UYtGKMA]<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Townspeople, please join me in congratulating <strong>Townsman Rick Massimo<\/strong> on his marriage, two days ago, to a perfectly wonderful, kind, sweet, intelligent woman. He&#8217;s lounging in the sun on the West coast of Australia right now (that&#8217;s where his wife is from), so I have my doubts he&#8217;ll be checking in on goings-on in the Hall, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, here&#8217;s the deal: like children&#8217;s music, most contemporary music selected to be played as part of a wedding service really, really sucks. I mean, really &#8212; how many times can you hear &#8220;Love&#8221; by <strong>John Lennon<\/strong> without realizing it&#8217;s a teeth-shatteringly saccharine greeting card of a song? I say: once!  So, fellow lovers of love, I challenge you: here&#8217;s your chance to insert a song of your choice into the wedding ceremony for Townsman Rick, right after the preacher&#8217;s cautionary, hopeful message and before the vows are taken. Make sure it doesn&#8217;t suck!<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HzU2UYtGKMA] Fellow Townspeople, please join me in congratulating Townsman Rick Massimo on his marriage, two days ago, to a perfectly wonderful, kind, sweet, intelligent woman. He&#8217;s lounging in the sun on the West coast of Australia right now (that&#8217;s where his wife is from), so I have my doubts he&#8217;ll be checking in on goings-on <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/congratulations-townsman-rickmassimo-her\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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\/2489"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}