{"id":407,"date":"2007-03-21T22:50:10","date_gmt":"2007-03-22T02:50:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-03-21T22:53:40","modified_gmt":"2007-03-21T22:53:40","slug":"mr-mod-launches-first-strike-on-indie-cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mr-mod-launches-first-strike-on-indie-cr\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Mod Launches First Strike on Indie Crybabies at Stereogum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Isvn_Dsj2bA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI just watched some new video by <strong>The Hold Steady<\/strong> over at <strong>Stereogum<\/strong>, a site I sometimes check in on and sometimes enjoy (the content, that is). However, almost any time I feel moved to leave a comment in response to a video or story I&#8217;ve read, I&#8217;m confronted with <strong>the least-articulate set of college-educated, indie crybabies known to man<\/strong>. At times like these, I&#8217;m left leaving a message such as the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shoot, we&#8217;ve spent 25-30 years trying to preserve what cool is left in rock so The Kids can go ga-ga over <em>Born to Run<\/em>? And then all you can do is cry over syntax and ignorance of case rules? Wah-wah.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sorry to have to put a hit on the well-intentioned Stereogum and The Hold Steady in response to the folks who leave comments, but Jeez Louise! <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/archives\/004893.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/archives\/004893.html\" target=\"_blank\">Check out for yourself what passes for discussion.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just watched some new video by The Hold Steady over at Stereogum, a site I sometimes check in on and sometimes enjoy (the content, that is). However, almost any time I feel moved to leave a comment in response to a video or story I&#8217;ve read, I&#8217;m confronted with the least-articulate set of college-educated, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mr-mod-launches-first-strike-on-indie-cr\/' 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\/407"}],"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=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}