{"id":4782,"date":"2010-12-12T20:50:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T00:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=4782"},"modified":"2010-12-12T20:50:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T00:50:04","slug":"mccartney-on-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mccartney-on-snl\/","title":{"rendered":"McCartney on SNL"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MLsARZkNNjk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>After the family party I attended Saturday night wrapped up I waited through a couple of seemingly horrible skits (I had the sound turned off) on <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> to see what <strong>Paul McCartney<\/strong> had in store for viewers. I was treated to a sluggish, pointless version of &#8220;Jet,&#8221; then I went to bed rather than wait out more cue-card reading from the likes of Bill Hader and that one-trick pony of a poor woman&#8217;s Carol Burnett, Kristen Wiiiiigggg, or whatever her name is. (I&#8217;m no fan of mugging, self-satisfied Mr. Nice Guy, Paul Rudd, either.) Ugh! Then I learn that I missed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/column\/viralvideos\/paul-mccartney-plays-beatles-wings-classics-1004134496.story#\/column\/viralvideos\/paul-mccartney-plays-beatles-wings-classics-1004134496.story\" target=\"_blank\">some other McCartney goodies<\/a>, just days after missing what sounded like an interesting appearance on <strong>Jimmy Fallon<\/strong>&#8216;s show. Did he play the additional four songs at the end of the night, 1975-era SNL mini-concert style, or did he do stuff before I turned on, at 11:50? What did you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the family party I attended Saturday night wrapped up I waited through a couple of seemingly horrible skits (I had the sound turned off) on Saturday Night Live to see what Paul McCartney had in store for viewers. I was treated to a sluggish, pointless version of &#8220;Jet,&#8221; then I went to bed rather <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mccartney-on-snl\/' 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":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782"}],"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=4782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}