{"id":203,"date":"2013-02-09T20:01:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T20:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2013-10-07T20:37:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T20:37:58","slug":"paul-collins-still-got-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"Paul Collins: Still Got It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PaulCollins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-204\" alt=\"PaulCollins\" src=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PaulCollins-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"510\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PaulCollins-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PaulCollins-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/PaulCollins.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Through a chain of coincidences we may never appreciate, we were offered tickets to see Paul Collins performing in Springfield by people who didn&#8217;t know who Paul Collins was when we didn&#8217;t even know he was playing Springfield. Thus the &#8220;power pop curse&#8221; was undermined as the gravity of this magnetic songwriter drew us into the seedy heart of the state capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Bet you&#8217;re wondering: Did he play &#8220;Hanging on the Telephone?&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/collins\/HangingOnTheTelephone\/Resources\/HangingOnTheTelephone.mov\" rel=\"qtposter\"><!--img src=\"\/collins\/HangingOnTheTelephone\/Resources\/HangingOnTheTelephone.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"496\" alt=\"HangingOnTheTelephone\"\/-->Did he!<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through a chain of coincidences we may never appreciate, we were offered tickets to see Paul Collins performing in Springfield by people who didn&#8217;t know who Paul Collins was when we didn&#8217;t even know he was playing Springfield. Thus the &#8220;power pop curse&#8221; was undermined as the gravity of this magnetic songwriter drew us into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[178,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paul-collins","category-power-pop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}