{"id":5184,"date":"2011-01-07T02:15:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T06:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=5184"},"modified":"2011-01-07T02:15:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T06:15:01","slug":"please-explain-what-motivated-peter-gabriel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-explain-what-motivated-peter-gabriel\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Explain: What Motivated Peter Gabriel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W35wtfcByIY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nSee if you can&#8217;t invest 9 minutes and 39 seconds in this clip of &#8220;classic&#8221;-era <strong>Genesis<\/strong> and explain to me what motivated <strong>Peter Gabriel<\/strong>? I mean, what is at the heart of the music he made with Genesis? What was he trying to communicate? He put a lot of energy into whatever it was he wanted to get across, but his message or general worldview fails to reach me. Did he do a better job of communicating whatever he wanted to communicate on his solo records? He&#8217;s sold millions of records worldwide as both a band leader and solo artist, so surely one of you has gotten what he&#8217;s going on about. Please explain. Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See if you can&#8217;t invest 9 minutes and 39 seconds in this clip of &#8220;classic&#8221;-era Genesis and explain to me what motivated Peter Gabriel? I mean, what is at the heart of the music he made with Genesis? What was he trying to communicate? He put a lot of energy into whatever it was he <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-explain-what-motivated-peter-gabriel\/' 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":[319,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184"}],"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=5184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}