{"id":4848,"date":"2010-12-15T11:27:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T15:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=4848"},"modified":"2010-12-15T12:35:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T16:35:02","slug":"battle-royale-worst-rock-holiday-anthem-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-worst-rock-holiday-anthem-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Royale! Worst Rock Holiday Anthem Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vINjdwS_Gxo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Oldsters on the list know the &#8220;Battle Royale&#8221; drill: everybody brings their best\/worst to the squared circle of geeky rock combat and attempts to wrest the imaginary &#8220;belt&#8221; from the Townsman\/woman who lays previous claim to it. We argue vociferously about who deserves to win the &#8220;battle,&#8221; and&#8211;if he&#8217;s so inclined&#8211;Mr. Moderator (in his role as RTH Commissioner Jack Tunney) eventually comes down from on high to declare a winner. Remember: this is not a &#8220;Last man Standing;&#8221; this is about bringing your best&#8211;or in this case, your worst&#8211;to the table.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start with a song I truly despise; one made even worse by its incessant use in retail settings this year: pre-adenoidal <strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong> (and his Jackson 5 siblings) screeching his way through &#8220;Santa Claus is Coming to Town.&#8221; Ugh! Make it stop!<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oldsters on the list know the &#8220;Battle Royale&#8221; drill: everybody brings their best\/worst to the squared circle of geeky rock combat and attempts to wrest the imaginary &#8220;belt&#8221; from the Townsman\/woman who lays previous claim to it. We argue vociferously about who deserves to win the &#8220;battle,&#8221; and&#8211;if he&#8217;s so inclined&#8211;Mr. Moderator (in his role <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-worst-rock-holiday-anthem-ever\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[42,394],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}