{"id":7429,"date":"2011-06-03T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=7429"},"modified":"2011-06-03T13:22:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T17:22:48","slug":"who-is-the-cougar-town-of-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/who-is-the-cougar-town-of-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is the <em>Cougar Town<\/em> of Rock?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7445\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7445\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7445\" title=\"cougartown\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/cougartown.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/cougartown.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/cougartown-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cougar Town!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I heard a great story about TV&#8217;s <em>Cougar Town<\/em> creator <strong>Bill Lawrence<\/strong> (also creator of <em>Scrubs<\/em> and <em>Spin City<\/em>) on <strong>Howard Stern<\/strong> yesterday. He wants to change the name of his 3-year-old show because he thinks that name turns\u00a0so many\u00a0people off (both men and women) and has kept it from being as successful as it could\/should be.<\/p>\n<p>He has a Twitter campaign to create a new name for this show and added a questionnaire asking, &#8220;Are you embarrassed to admit you like <em>Cougar Town<\/em> because of the name?&#8221;\u00a0He plans to go to his network with this data and request that they change the name of his show for the 2011-2012 TV season.<\/p>\n<p>Sucky rock band names are all over rock radio (esp. College Rock radio) but you never see a band dump their name once they get to the big leagues.<\/p>\n<p><em>Is there a band that you can not admit to liking because of their name?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Is there a band that you never gave a chance due to their name? (and that later you ended up liking?)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Feel free to come up with a new name for said band and we may just campaign for\u00a0a name change on their behalf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard a great story about TV&#8217;s Cougar Town creator Bill Lawrence (also creator of Scrubs and Spin City) on Howard Stern yesterday. He wants to change the name of his 3-year-old show because he thinks that name turns\u00a0so many\u00a0people off (both men and women) and has kept it from being as successful as it <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/who-is-the-cougar-town-of-rock\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429"}],"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\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}