{"id":2621,"date":"2010-03-17T21:38:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T01:38:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-17T21:39:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T21:39:36","slug":"london-calling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/london-calling\/","title":{"rendered":"London Calling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>9s7eIYLFPYA]<br \/>\n<em>Townsman cherguevara seems to have misplaced his keys to The Back Office, so he sent in this post for us to launch on his behalf. Thanks for your tenacity!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Recently, I was sent a link to an article that claimed to list the <strong>50 best songs about London<\/strong>. I was somewhat unimpressed by this list. I mean, &#8220;Baker Street?&#8221;  &#8220;West End Girls?&#8221; While both songs have their appeal, I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder if it was possible to do better. My first thought, as I sat in my office in Greenwich Village, was, &#8220;I bet my list of list of New York City songs could kick the proverbial ass of the songs on this London list.&#8221; But then, that&#8217;s apples and oranges. Or bagels and scones.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, listing 50 songs is a very tall order. But if we start with the songs already on the list that are worthy, such as &#8220;Waterloo Sunset,&#8221; we&#8217;ll be off to a good head start.<\/p>\n<p>Have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/london\/music\/features\/2026\/50_best_London_songs.html\" target=_blank>gander at  what <em>Time Out London<\/em> says are the &#8220;50 Best London Songs.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>So, what do you think?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9s7eIYLFPYA] Townsman cherguevara seems to have misplaced his keys to The Back Office, so he sent in this post for us to launch on his behalf. Thanks for your tenacity! Recently, I was sent a link to an article that claimed to list the 50 best songs about London. I was somewhat unimpressed by this <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/london-calling\/' 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\/2621"}],"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=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}