{"id":55,"date":"2009-09-28T11:45:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T16:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=55"},"modified":"2009-09-28T11:45:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T16:45:31","slug":"it-cant-get-better-than-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/28\/it-cant-get-better-than-this\/","title":{"rendered":"It Can\u2019t Get Better Than This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/bill_kopp_and_dennis_diken.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Kopp and Dennis Diken backstage at the Charlotte Pop Fest\" align=\"right\" height=\"225\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"300\" \/>The only thing better that spending an evening interviewing <strong>Dennis Diken<\/strong> of <strong>The Smithereens<\/strong> &#8212; discussing his new album <em>Late Music<\/em> (in stores tomorrow! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musoscribe.com\/reviews\/dennis_diken_bell_sound.shtml\" title=\"Review of Late Music\">review here<\/a>) would be to interview him and then see the Smithereens in concert.<\/p>\n<p>No, there&#8217;s something better than that: interviewing Dennis Diken and then seeing <em>two <\/em>Smithereens shows &#8212; one an in-store, and one a full concert.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how I spent my weekend. It&#8217;ll take some time to gather my thoughts and review my notes. There&#8217;s lots to discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing better that spending an evening interviewing Dennis Diken of The Smithereens &#8212; discussing his new album Late Music (in stores tomorrow! review here) would be to interview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}