{"id":2742,"date":"2010-05-15T10:40:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T14:40:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-15T10:40:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T10:40:49","slug":"wish-you-were-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wish-you-were-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Wish You Were Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night my wife and I tottered down to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastbrunswickclub.com\/\" target=_blank>our local hotel<\/a>. To see a band that I have waited 18 years to see: <strong>The Chills<\/strong>, one of New Zealand&#8217;s finest exports and central to the Flying Nun story of the 1980s and &#8217;90s.<\/p>\n<p>The Chills have an incredible catalogue of songs to select from, although you could probably never say hand on heart that they had a bona fide &#8216;hit&#8217;. But what has always hit the spot, and did again last night is this thunderous, floor-shaking anthem &#8220;I Love My Leather Jacket.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AdCvil6r6cA]<\/p>\n<p>The song is a dedication to <strong>Martyn Bull<\/strong>, a drummer in The Chills, who died aged 22. The question Townsmen my wife wondered out loud is this. <em>Is there a better song in memory of a departed friend than this one from The Chills?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night my wife and I tottered down to our local hotel. To see a band that I have waited 18 years to see: The Chills, one of New Zealand&#8217;s finest exports and central to the Flying Nun story of the 1980s and &#8217;90s. The Chills have an incredible catalogue of songs to select from, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wish-you-were-here\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":339,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742"}],"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\/339"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}