{"id":2511,"date":"2010-01-13T20:47:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T01:47:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-01-13T20:47:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T20:47:12","slug":"jay-reatard-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/jay-reatard-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Jay Reatard Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S2DFsW_2T5g?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI won&#8217;t pretend that the <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/37575-rip-jay-reatard\/\" target=_blank>death of Jay Reatard<\/a> rattles me to my core, but <em>wow<\/em>, this was a rare &#8220;new&#8221; musician whose work I found interesting and full of life. <\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago <strong>Townsman kpdexter<\/strong> directed me toward his music, thinking it may appeal to the <strong>Buzzcocks<\/strong> and tuneful <strong>Guided By Voices<\/strong> side of my tastes. Sure enough the collection of singles I bought sounded like the Buzzcocks through the tuneful side of GBV! At times the &#8220;in your faceness&#8221; of his delivery wore me out, but whenever those songs pop up on my iPod I feel like there&#8217;s still hope for raw nerves to energize rock &#8216;n roll music. <\/p>\n<p>I checked out Reatard&#8217;s latest album and didn&#8217;t find it as exciting, but I meant to take some time to read up on the guy and see what made him tick. Now it won&#8217;t be the same. My condolences to his friends and family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won&#8217;t pretend that the death of Jay Reatard rattles me to my core, but wow, this was a rare &#8220;new&#8221; musician whose work I found interesting and full of life. A couple of years ago Townsman kpdexter directed me toward his music, thinking it may appeal to the Buzzcocks and tuneful Guided By Voices <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/jay-reatard-dies\/' 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":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511"}],"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=2511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}