{"id":185,"date":"2005-07-24T14:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T14:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=185"},"modified":"2015-07-02T17:08:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T16:08:37","slug":"dylan-sleater-kinney-the-beach-boys-jimmy-cliff-sam-cooke-bobby-bland-joe-strummer-pretty-much-the-whole-history-of-recorded-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/07\/dylan-sleater-kinney-the-beach-boys-jimmy-cliff-sam-cooke-bobby-bland-joe-strummer-pretty-much-the-whole-history-of-recorded-music.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dylan &#038; Sleater Kinney &#038; the Beach Boys &#038; Jimmy Cliff &#038; Sam Cooke &#038; Bobby Bland &#038; Joe Strummer; pretty much the whole history of recorded music.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready to have your world turned upside-down? <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/omm\/story\/0,13887,1527571,00.html\">Nick Hornby likes Bruce Springsteen.<\/a> So does Tony Blair. In fact, so do a whole bunch of middle-aged white guys. Don&#8217;t say you never learn anything from this blog.<\/p>\n<p>If this expos\u00e9 isn&#8217;t mind-boggling enough, Springsteen has discovered Britpop, so in a few months don&#8217;t be surprised if your dad is suddenly only ten years behind the times.  Thus spoiling your enjoyment of your favourite bands.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note, Hornby&#8217;s taken to citing his own woozy opinions as an authoritative source in footnotes to back up his arguments, such as they are.<\/p>\n<p>>I can&#8217;t wait until David Bowie releases another album so Hornby can write a column trying to convince himself it doesn&#8217;t suck. Then start arguing over it with his reflection in a bathroom mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you ready to have your world turned upside-down? Nick Hornby likes Bruce Springsteen. So does Tony Blair. In fact, so do a whole bunch of middle-aged white guys. Don&#8217;t say you never learn anything from this blog. If this expos\u00e9 isn&#8217;t mind-boggling enough, Springsteen has discovered Britpop, so in a few months don&#8217;t be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6226,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/6226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}