{"id":23646,"date":"2011-11-21T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T12:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23646"},"modified":"2011-10-17T11:20:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T16:20:23","slug":"the-real-eighties-its-guys-with-new-toys-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23646","title":{"rendered":"The Real Eighties:  It&#8217;s Guys With New Toys Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great stereotypes of eighties music, at almost thirty years&#8217; remove, is that of the band with big mutant chemical hair playing synthesizers.<\/p>\n<p>One of the goals of this series is to show that there was a <em>lot <\/em>more to the era than that.<\/p>\n<p>But the fact remains that the decade <em>did <\/em>have plenty of artists whose hair was an engineering marvel, who benefitted from one of the greatest democratizations in artistic technology the world saw (until the Internet, of course).<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s the subject this week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great stereotypes of eighties music, at almost thirty years&#8217; remove, is that of the band with big mutant chemical hair playing synthesizers. One of the goals of this series is to show that there was a lot more to the era than that. But the fact remains that the decade did have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-the-real-eighties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23647,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646\/revisions\/23647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}