{"id":2824,"date":"2010-07-09T08:30:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T12:30:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-10T20:06:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T00:06:53","slug":"heavy-petting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/heavy-petting\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Petting"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-tO-SOY186o?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>After a while, can you take your eyes off the heavy petting about to break out, behind <strong>Marvin Gaye<\/strong>&#8216;s left shoulder, between the tuxedo-clad gentleman and his lady?<\/p>\n<p>And what is it about &#8220;By the Time I Get to Phoenix&#8221; that made it one of the most heavily covered songs of its time? Is it really that great a song? Beside <strong>Nick Cave<\/strong> and whoever covered it on a likely <strong>Hal Willner<\/strong>-produced <strong>Jimmy Webb<\/strong> tribute album has anyone covered this song since the mid-&#8217;70s? I mean, I like the song possibly more than I should myself. For me, it&#8217;s one of those songs endemic to the soon-to-be-failed aspirations of slightly groovy middle class families at that time. You may be familiar with my take on this from things I&#8217;ve written in the past regarding my love for <strong>Dionne Warwick<\/strong> and her treatment of the Bacharach\/David catalog &#8211; or my relationship to giant stereo consoles and conquistador sculptures. I&#8217;ll tie it all together someday, I promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a while, can you take your eyes off the heavy petting about to break out, behind Marvin Gaye&#8216;s left shoulder, between the tuxedo-clad gentleman and his lady? And what is it about &#8220;By the Time I Get to Phoenix&#8221; that made it one of the most heavily covered songs of its time? Is it <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/heavy-petting\/' 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":[194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824"}],"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=2824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}