{"id":2558,"date":"2010-02-15T14:48:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T19:48:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-15T14:48:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T14:48:28","slug":"the-knack-and-how-to-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-knack-and-how-to-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Knack&#8230;and How To Get It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zc3KXwd8ZWQ]<br \/>\nJust read the news that <strong>Doug Fieger<\/strong> of <strong>The Knack<\/strong> died Sunday. I wasn&#8217;t old enough to remember the war the rock press had with this band and its success, but I do remember &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/video.tvguide.com\/daily+show+with+jon+stewart\/intro++presidents+ipod\/2555935?autoplay=true&amp;partnerid=ovg&amp;rss=news&amp;partnerid=spi&amp;profileid=05\" target=_blank>My Sharona<\/a>.&#8221;  Later, when I fancied myself a student of the power pop genre, I discovered that first Knack record and all of its many gems.  <\/p>\n<p>So, the questions for you is this: <em>Get The Knack<\/em> or <em>Knuke The Knack<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>TB<\/p>\n<p><em>NEXT: Rock Town Hall&#8217;s Official Eulogy&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zc3KXwd8ZWQ] Just read the news that Doug Fieger of The Knack died Sunday. I wasn&#8217;t old enough to remember the war the rock press had with this band and its success, but I do remember &#8220;My Sharona.&#8221; Later, when I fancied myself a student of the power pop genre, I discovered that first Knack record <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-knack-and-how-to-get-it\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[218,170,219,217],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558"}],"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\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}