{"id":2142,"date":"2011-04-23T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2011-04-23T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T11:37:00","slug":"memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/23\/memo\/","title":{"rendered":"Memo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATTN: Owners of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendoverfun.com\/concerthall\/\">Peppermill Concert Hall<\/a>, West Wendover, NV<\/p>\n<p>I just heard your latest radio spot advertising upcoming performances. It sounds like a great line-up over the next couple months. I enjoy your smaller, more intimate venue and I&#8217;m grateful for the opportunity you give to older artists who can no longer fill the big arenas, but still love to perform for their fans.<\/p>\n<p>However, I would like to mention that Rick Springfield <i>does <\/i>have male fans. No, really. Trust me on this point. Prefacing his segment of the ad with a voiceover saying, &#8220;Hey, ladies&#8230;.&#8221; and suggesting that a Rick concert is a perfect girls&#8217; night out &#8212; which it is, I won&#8217;t deny &#8212; is somewhat alienating to those of us who love his music but also sport that Y chromosome. Just something to consider&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATTN: Owners of the Peppermill Concert Hall, West Wendover, NV I just heard your latest radio spot advertising upcoming performances. It sounds like a great line-up over the next couple months. I enjoy your smaller, more intimate venue and I&#8217;m grateful for the opportunity you give to older artists who can no longer fill the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-pop-culture","category-the-old-man-throwing-rocks-at-the-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}