{"id":45703,"date":"2014-07-14T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45703"},"modified":"2014-07-14T07:46:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T12:46:29","slug":"45703","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45703","title":{"rendered":"Daydream Revisionist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime friend of the blog &#8220;Barry&#8221; emails in regard to my muted rip on the Monkees last week (which, in my defense, was less a rip on the Monkees than an example of how pop culture likes to follow up success with as many copies of the successful as they can paste together):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In defense of the Monkees I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/03\/01\/opinion\/browne-davy-jones\/\">offer the following article from CNN<\/a>, a source I know you regard as unimpeachable:<br \/>\nMy opinion that the Monkees are underrated is suspect, however, because when you go to the dictionary and look up &#8220;nerd&#8221; you find my picture. FWIW.<\/p>\n<p>barry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Barry and the CNN piece are right, of course &#8211; and there&#8217;s a big potential series of music posts in the whole story. \u00a0The Beatles were among the first superstars to write their own music; the Monkees were among the later products of an entertainment industry that had specialized trades to do that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, read the whole thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime friend of the blog &#8220;Barry&#8221; emails in regard to my muted rip on the Monkees last week (which, in my defense, was less a rip on the Monkees than an example of how pop culture likes to follow up success with as many copies of the successful as they can paste together): In defense [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45703","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=45703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45714,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45703\/revisions\/45714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}