{"id":5771,"date":"2011-02-10T11:05:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T16:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=5771"},"modified":"2011-08-04T09:36:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T13:36:17","slug":"signs-that-even-air-guitar-is-out-of-vogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/signs-that-even-air-guitar-is-out-of-vogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs That Even Air Guitar Is Out of Vogue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SUNno0jD9yo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>My gamer son told me this was coming: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/US\/02\/09\/guitar.hero.gone\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Guitar Hero<\/em> is no more<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know if this is really one more sign that rock &#8216;n roll is out of vogue or if they simply lost out to <em>Rock Band<\/em>, which my son says is much better. Let us take a moment of silence to honor a hero&#8217;s defeat and appreciate this quote from CNN.com&#8217;s report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As rock struggled against rap music, video games like &#8220;Guitar Hero&#8221; and &#8220;Rock Band&#8221; were credited with creating a new appreciation for rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll among the millennial generation born in the &#8217;90s who didn&#8217;t know much about Aerosmith, Pat Benatar and other musicians of the &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Thanks to Townsman plugdin2 for passing along this story.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My gamer son told me this was coming: Guitar Hero is no more. I don&#8217;t know if this is really one more sign that rock &#8216;n roll is out of vogue or if they simply lost out to Rock Band, which my son says is much better. Let us take a moment of silence to <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/signs-that-even-air-guitar-is-out-of-vogue\/' 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":[342,16],"tags":[164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771"}],"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=5771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}