{"id":6186,"date":"2011-03-08T11:04:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T15:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=6186"},"modified":"2011-03-08T11:45:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T15:45:52","slug":"once-and-for-all-the-greatest-rock-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/once-and-for-all-the-greatest-rock-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Once and For All:<\/em> The Greatest Rock Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/onceandforall.swf\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/onceandforall.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/onceandforall.swf\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/onceandforall.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/tell-me-something-i-dont-know-already-artists-in-need-of-no-further-biographies\/\" target=\"_blank\">oversaturation in the rock bio market<\/a> so let\u2019s just cut right to the chase here.\u00a0<em>Once and for all&#8230;<\/em>what is the <strong>Greatest Rock Biography<\/strong>?\u00a0It can be based on any criteria you wish (insight into the artist&#8217;s psyche or creative process, the arc of the rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-redemption story, snorting a line of ants or the &#8220;Mud Shark Incident&#8221;) but no matter what your basis is, please show your work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of talk about oversaturation in the rock bio market so let\u2019s just cut right to the chase here.\u00a0Once and for all&#8230;what is the Greatest Rock Biography?\u00a0It can be based on any criteria you wish (insight into the artist&#8217;s psyche or creative process, the arc of the rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-redemption story, snorting a line <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/once-and-for-all-the-greatest-rock-biography\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[167,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}