{"id":9703,"date":"2011-10-17T08:07:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T12:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=9703"},"modified":"2011-10-17T08:07:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T12:07:19","slug":"showdown-theres-not-room-enough-for-two-songs-so-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/showdown-theres-not-room-enough-for-two-songs-so-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOWDOWN: There&#8217;s Not Room Enough for Two Songs So Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p1FxiYOHq9U?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>The family and I were driving home from a dinner out the other night when <strong>Steve Miller Band<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Rock &#8216;n Me&#8221; (I had no idea that was the song&#8217;s actual title until just now, always figuring it was &#8220;Keep on Rocking Me, Baby&#8221;) came on the radio. I reached for the dial, mumbling &#8220;There&#8217;s no need to ever hear that song again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My wife loves Steve Miller Band&#8217;s <em>Greatest Hits<\/em>. She will forever give Miller&#8217;s catchy, airheaded hits a free pass. &#8220;Why&#8217;d you change that?&#8221; she asked, when I went back to the Classic Rock station, after realizing the radio had nothing better to offer. &#8220;You know I like that song.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That song&#8217;s taking business away from <strong>BTO<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8216;Takin&#8217; Care of Business&#8217;,&#8221; I replied, &#8220;there not room enough for two songs so stupid. One of them has got to go!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>So which dumb-ass 3-chord song gets chopped, &#8220;Rock &#8216;n Me&#8221; or &#8220;Takin&#8217; Care of Business&#8221;?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r4sI5DG5sjc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The family and I were driving home from a dinner out the other night when Steve Miller Band&#8216;s &#8220;Rock &#8216;n Me&#8221; (I had no idea that was the song&#8217;s actual title until just now, always figuring it was &#8220;Keep on Rocking Me, Baby&#8221;) came on the radio. I reached for the dial, mumbling &#8220;There&#8217;s no <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/showdown-theres-not-room-enough-for-two-songs-so-stupid\/' 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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9703"}],"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=9703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}