{"id":423,"date":"2004-08-23T11:31:56","date_gmt":"2004-08-23T11:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/?p=423"},"modified":"2004-08-23T11:31:56","modified_gmt":"2004-08-23T11:31:56","slug":"one-of-the-few-musicians-of-my-youth-im-not-embarrassed-to-have-on-my-shelf-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2004\/08\/one-of-the-few-musicians-of-my-youth-im-not-embarrassed-to-have-on-my-shelf-today\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the few musicians of my youth I&#8217;m not embarrassed to have on my shelf today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Rocky Mountain News: Music\" href=\"http:\/\/www.insidedenver.com\/drmn\/music\/article\/0,1299,DRMN_54_3126201,00.html\">Rocky Mountain News: Music<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The man who once was one of the biggest rock stars in the world saw years ago that the music industry couldn&#8217;t keep doing business the way it had, so he went directly to his fans online.<br \/>\nHalfway through the most successful tour of 2004, in a summer when almost every other tour is tanking, Prince&#8217;s concerts are a virtual coast-to-coast sellout, breaking records in major cities. One Pepsi Center show next week is sold out, and the other is close to it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a long-time Prince fan, I find this whole article (a) vastly entertaining (b) entirely in keeping with the personality that I became familiar with back in the 80&#8217;s.<br \/>\nWonder if I can swing tickets for the show at the Pepsi center.  Hmm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocky Mountain News: Music The man who once was one of the biggest rock stars in the world saw years ago that the music industry couldn&#8217;t keep doing business the way it had, so he went directly to his fans online. Halfway through the most successful tour of 2004, in a summer when almost every &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2004\/08\/one-of-the-few-musicians-of-my-youth-im-not-embarrassed-to-have-on-my-shelf-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One of the few musicians of my youth I&#8217;m not embarrassed to have on my shelf today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-fanboy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}