{"id":2603,"date":"2010-03-06T14:30:30","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T19:30:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-07T10:22:50","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T10:22:50","slug":"surprise-philly-show-by-benny-and-the-bums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/surprise-philly-show-by-benny-and-the-bums\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Philly Show by Benny and the Bums?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/benny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/benny.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"305\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Not this Benny!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Philadelphia-area fans of a certain South Jersey <del>hubcap<\/del> hepcat from the &#8217;80s music scene may be interested in a show coming to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themanhattanroom.com\/shows.php\" target=_blank><strong>M Room<\/strong> (15 W. Girard Ave, Philadelphia) this <strong>Sunday night, March 7<\/strong><\/a>. The headliner goes by the name <strong>Benny and the Bums<\/strong>, but a source and usually lurking Townsman tells me this &#8220;Benny&#8221; is an old friend and beloved showman who left our orbit years ago for some <del>rock a few spots over from the sun<\/del> California grass. Why this show is shrouded in mystery I do not know, but for the safety of my friend &#8211; who is expecting to have a burlap bag placed over his head on Sunday evening before being driven to the <del>7-11<\/del> club in a <del>Ford Rambler<\/del> unmarked car &#8211; I will say no more. <em>At Rock Town Hall we&#8217;re all about safety and accurate reporting!<\/em> I plan on <del>growing a beard<\/del> being there in case this turns out to be the musician I&#8217;m told it is going to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not this Benny! Philadelphia-area fans of a certain South Jersey hubcap hepcat from the &#8217;80s music scene may be interested in a show coming to the M Room (15 W. Girard Ave, Philadelphia) this Sunday night, March 7. The headliner goes by the name Benny and the Bums, but a source and usually lurking Townsman <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/surprise-philly-show-by-benny-and-the-bums\/' 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":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603"}],"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=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}