{"id":2518,"date":"2010-01-19T10:01:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T15:01:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-01-19T10:02:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T10:02:25","slug":"setting-the-parameters-for-an-objective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/setting-the-parameters-for-an-objective\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting the Parameters for an Objective Appraisal of The Smiths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/smiths.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"272\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2010\/01\/18\/consult-the-orockle-can-t-we-all-just-ag\">recent thread seeking consensus<\/a> over a single song for a variety of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2009\/08\/25\/polarizing-bands\">polarizing bands<\/a>, <strong>Townsman Oats<\/strong> dismissed one subthread as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Smiths are a band that will never, ever get an objective appraisal here, so I don&#8217;t even know why we&#8217;re talking about them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oats &#8211; and fellow Townspeople &#8211; I am curious to konw what the parameters might be for an objective appraisal of The Smiths. Can you help us identify these parameters so that we <em>might<\/em> be able to prove our friend Oats wrong? Might <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2007\/09\/17\/loser_rock\">this key piece from our archives<\/a> help us in our preparation for this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2007\/01\/12\/welcome_to_rock_town_hall\">challenging task<\/a>? Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent thread seeking consensus over a single song for a variety of polarizing bands, Townsman Oats dismissed one subthread as follows: The Smiths are a band that will never, ever get an objective appraisal here, so I don&#8217;t even know why we&#8217;re talking about them. Oats &#8211; and fellow Townspeople &#8211; I am <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/setting-the-parameters-for-an-objective\/' 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\/2518"}],"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=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}