{"id":6730,"date":"2003-04-13T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-13T21:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/13\/6730\/"},"modified":"2016-06-12T16:03:54","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T21:03:54","slug":"6730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/13\/6730\/","title":{"rendered":"Does This Cover Power Ballads, Which Are No Longer Popular?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic leaders <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_770245.html\" target=\"_top\">across the pond<\/a> have finally banned pop songs from weddings, a step Lutherans seem to have taken already here stateside (at least in the church where I got married).<\/p>\n<p>No word yet whether this includes power ballads, such as Motley Crue&#8217;s &#8220;Without You&#8221; or Firehouse&#8217;s &#8220;Love of a Lifetime&#8221;, music formerly used as filler material on hair rock albums until someone in 1986 discovered this pap would make radio music directors and audiences see a sensitive side to a band where one probably didn&#8217;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>Also no word on whether this ban will be enforced at Milwaukee&#8217;s fabled Chapel of the Little Bells, home of the 20-minute-wedding-performed-by-a-guy-with-seventies-hair-flaps-over-the-ears-and-a-shiny-electric-blue-suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic leaders across the pond have finally banned pop songs from weddings, a step Lutherans seem to have taken already here stateside (at least in the church where I got married). No word yet whether this includes power ballads, such as Motley Crue&#8217;s &#8220;Without You&#8221; or Firehouse&#8217;s &#8220;Love of a Lifetime&#8221;, music formerly used as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15414,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6730\/revisions\/15414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}