{"id":9825,"date":"2006-08-08T14:51:43","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T13:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taggedtalk.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2006-08-08T14:51:43","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T13:51:43","slug":"elp-bombast-or-brilliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/9825-elp-bombast-or-brilliance.html","title":{"rendered":"ELP: bombast or brilliance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time I get an urge to revisit past musical pleasures. The other day it was Emerson Lake and Palmer, and I dug out Brain Salad Surgery, the eponymous first album, and the sprawling live affair Welcome Back my Friends.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t make up my mind about this band. It seems to be a mood thing; sometimes the interesting rhythms, Keith Emerson&#8217;s flowing keyboard and Greg Lake&#8217;s delicate vocals fill me with admiration. Other times it sounds over-the-top and adolescent.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose in an absolute sense it is more like the latter. Still, I think you have to concede at least <strong>moments<\/strong>\u00a0of inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From time to time I get an urge to revisit past musical pleasures. The other day it was Emerson Lake and Palmer, and I dug out Brain Salad Surgery, the eponymous first album, and the sprawling live affair Welcome Back my Friends. I can&#8217;t make up my mind about this band. It seems to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/9825-elp-bombast-or-brilliance.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ELP: bombast or brilliance?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1073,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}