{"id":979,"date":"2007-11-08T12:05:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T17:05:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T16:08:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T16:08:41","slug":"rock-town-hall-to-remove-all-images-of-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-town-hall-to-remove-all-images-of-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Town Hall to Remove All Images of and References to Prince"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X9H_cI_WCnE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Out of respect for Prince&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.websheriff.com\/websheriff\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.websheriff.com\/websheriff\/\" target=\"_blank\">Web Sheriff<\/a><\/strong>, popular rock music discussion blog Rock Town Hall will remove all images of and references to the artist formerly known as <strong>The Artist Formerly Known as Prince<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Out of respect for the Web Sheriff, the Prince organization, its crack legal team, Prince&#8217;s standing in the Munchkin community, and all true fans of the artist,&#8221; said the Hall&#8217;s <strong>Mr. Moderator<\/strong>, &#8220;we will begin wiping Rock Town Hall of all traces of this great man&#8217;s work, from discussions of his last 22 albums that came and went without a trace to our extensive collection of fan fiction and sketches.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As examples of the sort of material that will no longer appear on Rock Town Hall, Mr. Moderator points to <a href=\"http:\/\/bossip.com\/uploaded_images\/prince5-770364.jpg\" title=\"http:\/\/bossip.com\/uploaded_images\/prince5-770364.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/radio100fm.dk\/pressemeddelelser\/Radio100FMkampagne-Prince.jpg\" title=\"http:\/\/radio100fm.dk\/pressemeddelelser\/Radio100FMkampagne-Prince.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artfagcity.com\/wordpress_core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/prince.jpg\" title=\"http:\/\/www.artfagcity.com\/wordpress_core\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/prince.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>. &#8220;We do fear that removal of these images will change to flavor of the site, but our efforts at supporting the works of Prince only represent a small portion of the millions of fans who received free copies of his last album by buying whatever newspaper it was that included it along with the coupons.&#8221; Mr. Moderator said that he and The Back Office have discussed replacing some of the images of Prince that are essential to its layout with those of <strong>Bob Seger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Moderator continued, &#8220;I&#8217;m most worried about <strong>Townsmen Hrrundi<\/strong> and <strong>Geo<\/strong>. They have come to depend on Rock Town Hall, in large part, for our members&#8217; enthusiasm over the man&#8217;s earlier and underappreciated works.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?cat=16\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?cat=16\">More News!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of respect for Prince&#8217;s Web Sheriff, popular rock music discussion blog Rock Town Hall will remove all images of and references to the artist formerly known as The Artist Formerly Known as Prince. &#8220;Out of respect for the Web Sheriff, the Prince organization, its crack legal team, Prince&#8217;s standing in the Munchkin community, and <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-town-hall-to-remove-all-images-of-a\/' 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":[16],"tags":[47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979"}],"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=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}