{"id":7411,"date":"2011-01-12T10:19:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T17:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=7411"},"modified":"2011-01-12T10:22:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T17:22:06","slug":"57-channels-and-nothing-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2011\/01\/12\/57-channels-and-nothing-on\/","title":{"rendered":"57 Channels and Nothing On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The channels in the 700 range, or thereabouts, are that package of music stations &#8212; song playing underneath rotating band or artist promotional images and promotional factoids. \u00c2\u00a0 I was bouncing myself between the &#8220;classic rock&#8221;, &#8220;alternative rock&#8221;, and &#8220;classic alternative rock&#8221; stations.\u00c2\u00a0 It is interesting that they use for Talking Heads a few photographs from their &#8220;Rock and Roll Hall of Fame&#8221; appearance &#8212; trailing off long after the band disbanded.\u00c2\u00a0 There is an interesting difference between bands or artists of long stature and flash in the pan one hit or one or two charting album groups &#8212; more images to pull from for Led Zeppelin and rotate than for (wait for it) Sponge.<\/p>\n<p>It gets weirder still for the factoids that roll through the song.\u00c2\u00a0 A Led Zeppelin song will go through some tried and true rock history lore that exists as a stock-pile of information for toss-out use by every rock dj of the past several decades.\u00c2\u00a0 Then there is this band with a song from either 2009 or 2010 who appear to be destined to share a similar career trajectory of Sponge.\u00c2\u00a0 Factoids?\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Drummer Steve&#8217;s favorite snack food is the pickle.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;re either joking around or waiting for a good hotel story.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe there was no choice but to pluck inanities from facebook profiles?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The channels in the 700 range, or thereabouts, are that package of music stations &#8212; song playing underneath rotating band or artist promotional images and promotional factoids. \u00c2\u00a0 I was bouncing myself between the &#8220;classic rock&#8221;, &#8220;alternative rock&#8221;, and &#8220;classic alternative rock&#8221; stations.\u00c2\u00a0 It is interesting that they use for Talking Heads a few photographs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7413,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7411\/revisions\/7413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}