{"id":2787,"date":"2010-06-14T23:15:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T03:15:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-14T23:15:36","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T23:15:36","slug":"rock-town-hall-s-world-cup-of-rock-n-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-town-hall-s-world-cup-of-rock-n-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Town Hall&#8217;s World Cup of Rock &#8216;n Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/felakuti2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/felakuti2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Fela, captain of the Nigerian team, wants in!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>To celebrate the kick-off of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fifa.com\/index.html\" target=_blank>2010 FIFA World Cup<\/a>, can we select a bracket of the <strong>16 most-rocking nations<\/strong>, including artists to represent each nation? Although this is the World Cup of <em>Rock &#8216;n Roll<\/em>, let&#8217;s be open-minded and allow &#8220;world&#8221; musicians into the mix. The roster of each nation can be represented by <em>as many as THREE artists<\/em>, to avoid having to choose between the Beatles and the Stones, for instance, after first selecting Led Zeppelin and Lily Allen to represent the mighty entry from <strong>England<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to begin by suggesting nations, with or without the two representative artists. You may suggest as many as 16 finalists or as few as 1 at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Once the brackets are set &#8211; and only then &#8211; will the matches play out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fela, captain of the Nigerian team, wants in! To celebrate the kick-off of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, can we select a bracket of the 16 most-rocking nations, including artists to represent each nation? Although this is the World Cup of Rock &#8216;n Roll, let&#8217;s be open-minded and allow &#8220;world&#8221; musicians into the mix. The <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-town-hall-s-world-cup-of-rock-n-roll\/' 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":[],"tags":[125,263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787"}],"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=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}