{"id":511,"date":"2008-04-23T09:16:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T17:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guapacha.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2008-04-23T09:16:36","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T17:16:36","slug":"happy-st-georges-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"Happy St. George&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"50%\" width=\"50%\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/c\/c0\/Paulweller1.jpg\/220px-Paulweller1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Yes, the patron Saint to rule them all is celebrated today and, er, nobody gives a damn. At least very few Englishmen do these days though there has been talk of forcing a celebration on the country, try and get some patriotism going.<\/p>\n<p>The astute amongst you will notice that the picture in this post is <strong>not<\/strong> that of St. George but, rather, Paul Weller, of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Jam\">The Jam<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Style_Council\">The Style Council<\/a> fame. Whilst many revere Paul McCartney as the hero English song-writer, I&#8217;d rather listen to anything written by Mr. Weller, who I think is tragically overlooked by those looking to celebrate the English singer-songwriter.<\/p>\n<p>Being a disco child I wasn&#8217;t a huge fan of The Jam until the early 80&#8217;s when Paul was already heading towards the more soulful tunes that characterised the Style Council. <em>Beat Surrender<\/em> is one of my favourite songs ever, and now that I&#8217;m older I find I enjoy the early The Jam songs much more. And <em>Introducing the Style Council<\/em> is some vinyl (or MP3 collection if you must) that everyone should own and enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the patron Saint to rule them all is celebrated today and, er, nobody gives a damn. At least very few Englishmen do these days though there has been talk of forcing a celebration on the country, try and get some patriotism going. The astute amongst you will notice that the picture in this post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[69,136],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-england","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}