{"id":6202,"date":"2011-03-10T13:40:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T17:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=6202"},"modified":"2011-03-10T14:39:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T18:39:01","slug":"vocal-mugging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/vocal-mugging\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocal Mugging"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Goxm0x4dTw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I&#8217;ve always had a hard time getting into <strong>Billy Bragg<\/strong>.  It&#8217;s because of his very heavy accented singing.  It almost sounds like he&#8217;s mugging to the audience (even in the booth) with every line.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t seem to mind other artists who do this\u2014<strong>Andy Partridge<\/strong> has a bit of this wink-to-the-audience tone to his voice\u2014but Mr. Bragg is too much for me.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always had a hard time getting into Billy Bragg. It&#8217;s because of his very heavy accented singing. It almost sounds like he&#8217;s mugging to the audience (even in the booth) with every line. I don&#8217;t seem to mind other artists who do this\u2014Andy Partridge has a bit of this wink-to-the-audience tone to his voice\u2014but <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/vocal-mugging\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202"}],"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\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}