{"id":1274,"date":"2006-11-20T16:41:38","date_gmt":"2006-11-20T20:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2006-11-20T16:41:38","modified_gmt":"2006-11-20T20:41:38","slug":"nirvana-v-vaselines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"Nirvana v Vaselines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Yglesias worries that thinking Nirvana's covers of all those Vaselines songs are superior to the originals is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewyglesias.com\/archives\/2006\/11\/the_perils_of_authenticity\/index.php\">\"a crappy opinion to have\"<\/a>. He needed worry - Nirvana's covers <i>are<\/i> better than The Vaseline's originals. Some songwriters are really good at writing songs that <i>need<\/i> to be performed by other people before the song can fully blossom. Bob Dylan and Neil Young fall into this category, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Yglesias worries that thinking Nirvana's covers of all those Vaselines songs are superior to the originals is \"a crappy opinion to have\". He needed worry - Nirvana's covers are better than The Vaseline's originals. Some songwriters are really good at writing songs that need to be performed by other people before the song can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}