{"id":238,"date":"2008-03-19T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2008-03-19T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T07:20:00","slug":"paul-morley-simon-armitage-deconstruct-this-charming-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Paul Morley &amp; Simon Armitage deconstruct &quot;This Charming Man&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Paul Morley&#8217;s programme &#8220;Pop! What Is It Good For?&#8221; Simon Armitage, the poet and Paul Morley, a great rock and roll critic. talk through The Smiths &#8220;This Charming Man&#8221;. I was never a huge Smiths fan, but I thought this was kind of interesting.<\/p>\n<p>I thought it was weird to write the words &#8220;rock and roll&#8221;, I mean does that even mean anything anymore?<\/p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class='youtube-player' type='text\/html' width='640' height='390' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j3Hn6wWjTZc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent' allowfullscreen='true' style='border:0;'><\/iframe><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Paul Morley&#8217;s programme &#8220;Pop! What Is It Good For?&#8221; Simon Armitage, the poet and Paul Morley, a great rock and roll critic. talk through The Smiths &#8220;This Charming Man&#8221;. I was never a huge Smiths fan, but I thought this was kind of interesting. I thought it was weird to write the words &#8220;rock and roll&#8221;, I mean does that even mean anything anymore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[160,173],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}