{"id":6204,"date":"2011-03-15T20:45:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T00:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=6204"},"modified":"2011-03-15T20:45:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T00:45:34","slug":"speaking-of-paul-weller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/speaking-of-paul-weller\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Paul Weller&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/od_DzoJduXo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>One of the biggest disappointments in my CD-buying life was listening to <em>Wild Wood<\/em> by <strong>Paul Weller<\/strong>.  I mean, I was a HUGE  Jam fan as a lad.  So much so, that I didn&#8217;t dare follow him into the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/does-even-one-style-council\/\" target=\"_blank\">Style Council<\/a><\/strong> days (like another member who will go unnamed, HVB) so as not to sully my memories of his mod\/pop brilliance.  So imagine my excitement when I read a few years back all the incredible raves about his third life as a true solo artist.  I mean, man the reviews were incredible!  Like finally, wow, the guy came to his senses and started to settle down into some mature songwriting.<\/p>\n<p>Mature my ass.  Boooorrring, is more like it.<\/p>\n<p>Am I alone here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest disappointments in my CD-buying life was listening to Wild Wood by Paul Weller. I mean, I was a HUGE Jam fan as a lad. So much so, that I didn&#8217;t dare follow him into the Style Council days (like another member who will go unnamed, HVB) so as not to sully <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/speaking-of-paul-weller\/' 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":[363],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204"}],"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=6204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}