{"id":1831,"date":"2017-10-06T12:16:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T11:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2017-10-06T12:16:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T11:16:48","slug":"tom-petty-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=1831","title":{"rendered":"Tom Petty \u2013 Farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MIKE FORNATALE remembers a true American giant<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1833\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tom_Petty_and_the_Heartbreakers_1977-1024x710.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tom_Petty_and_the_Heartbreakers_1977-1024x710.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tom_Petty_and_the_Heartbreakers_1977-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tom_Petty_and_the_Heartbreakers_1977-768x532.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tom_Petty_and_the_Heartbreakers_1977-100x69.jpg 100w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tom_Petty_and_the_Heartbreakers_1977-150x104.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tom_Petty_and_the_Heartbreakers_1977-200x139.jpg 200w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tom_Petty_and_the_Heartbreakers_1977-450x312.jpg 450w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tom_Petty_and_the_Heartbreakers_1977-600x416.jpg 600w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tom_Petty_and_the_Heartbreakers_1977-900x624.jpg 900w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Tom_Petty_and_the_Heartbreakers_1977.jpg 1470w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The death of a beloved celebrity. Again. Heartfelt tribute after heartfelt tribute. Some brilliantly eloquent ones, some that don\u2019t say much but obviously come straight from the heart, and also many pithy observations like \u201csaw him at nasaau colasium 81 good show\u201d \u00a0\u2013 and you wonder if you should even bother, because of the sheer weight of redundancy.\u00a0 Temptation to get all flowery and erudite and even mansplainy.<\/p>\n<p>But I do have a couple of interesting stories, I think, so here goes.<\/p>\n<p>For me, it did not begin auspiciously. But it became auspicious pretty quickly.<\/p>\n<p>The timeline is important.\u00a0 No, critical.\u00a0 It was the day before Thanksgiving, 1976.\u00a0 It had been almost a year-and-a-half since a certain NYC \u201csupergroup\u201d headed by Johnny Thunders and Richard Hell had made its first splash.\u00a0 Their classic, Hell-less lineup was in place by early 1976, and had been gigging for the better part of a year.\u00a0 The name was pretty well-known \u2018round these parts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/user\/spotify\/playlist\/37i9dQZF1DWUlZhYdX0uqM\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I was the Music Director at WFUV, Fordham University NYC&#8217;s student-run (at the time) FM station. Not just a campus radio station, but a powerful 50,000-watt major-market non-commercial entity. New releases from record companies do not usually arrive at the radio station the day before a holiday weekend, and that\u2019s one of the reasons I remember this so clearly. A small box from ABC records, with two LPs inside. The only thing in the mail that day. It\u2019s about 3PM and I\u2019m on my way home for the weekend, just stopped in to check the mail first.<\/p>\n<p>So I open the box.\u00a0 Two new artists, neither of which I\u2019ve ever heard of, both on Shelter (the label originally started by Leon Russell, distributed by ABC, for you trainspotters.)\u00a0 One of them was a female duo called Lyons &amp; Clark. A very expensive-looking production, by Tom Scott.\u00a0 And I\u2019m going to derail my story for just a second in order to talk about Lyons &amp; Clark, because I love this album to death. It\u2019s a big-money mid-70s monster, to be sure, but incongruously slathered all over an obvious small-coffeehouse\/candles-in-Mateus-bottles folkie act. Without the big money this would have been a two-ladies-two-acoustic-guitars, stools, playing in pass-the-hat venues that seat twenty people. But both of \u2019em seem to have had a REALLY serious Joni Mitchell fixation, and that\u2019s what probably caught somebody\u2019s ear and why they ended up with Tom Scott producing. The songs are great, and neatly survive the kitchen-sink production that would have strangled lesser material. The Joni-isms are a bit much at times \u2013 if you can find <em>No Deal<\/em> on the interwebs somewhere, which I doubt, the answer-vocal \u201cplayin\u2019 with a jokerrrrrrrr\u201d will make you laugh pretty hard \u2013 but I don\u2019t mind them.\u00a0 So that album really nails down the late Autumn of \u201876 for me.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the other record.\u00a0 The one that was on top when I opened the box.<\/p>\n<p>I saw that smirky face, the leather jacket, the chain of bullets, and the word \u201cHeartbreakers\u201d. \u00a0And I said, out loud, to whoever was standing next to me \u2013 I think it was Jim Monaghan \u2013 \u201cWho the FUCK does this little pretty-boy asshole think he is???\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - American Girl\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uNgt7U9QrFQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->(It wasn\u2019t until decades later, of course, that I found out the imagined purloin was literally the other way around. Richard and Johnny were in Florida and saw a poster advertising some little local band, and decided that said band would never make it out of their little local scene and it\u2019d be perfectly okay to steal the name and use it themselves.)<\/p>\n<p>Well, I figured, whatever. Since I was on my way out the door anyway, I took the two albums home to listen to them over the long weekend. \u00a0Before I put them on, I read the press kits which had come with them. I remember nothing about the L&amp;C data sheet, other than that it spent pretty much all of the ink on naming all the luminaries who had played on the album. Pretty impressive list, yeah, but YAWN.<\/p>\n<p>The press kit in the Tom Petty and the \u201cHeartbreakers\u201d [SEETHE!!!!] album only served to deepen my disdain for whoever this guy was, or thought he was.\u00a0 There was an 8&#215;10\u201d version of the contact-sheet that you\u2019ll find on the album\u2019s original inner sleeve, each photo smirkier than the previous one, with some credits on the back. And then, a two-page typewritten-and-mimeographed Q&amp;A, by a mercifully-unnamed interviewer, which has the nerve to be headlined \u201cBIOGRAPHY.\u201d\u00a0 In which a very sullen young man who clearly does not want to be interviewed tersely answers a few questions about his band.<\/p>\n<p>The interview tries to trump up some \u201cmystery\u201d about the band\u2019s geography. \u201cYou don\u2019t like to talk about where you\u2019re from. Why is that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ho-hum, I thought. It\u2019s probably going to turn out that he\u2019s from Asbury Park NJ and doesn\u2019t want anybody to know.\u00a0 (Remember, it\u2019s \u201976)<\/p>\n<p>This was a fairly popular motif in press kits of that day. Right around the same time \u2013 either just before or just after this, I can\u2019t recall \u2013 we received the debut album by somebody named \u201cJohnny Cougar.\u201d\u00a0 You may keep your opinions about THAT to yourselves \u2013 but in the enclosed interview the guy comes off as a weapons-grade asshole, with so many chips on his shoulders that his shadow must have looked like a trident. In later days he would blame this on his original management\u2019s misguided attempts at image-building. I don\u2019t know the guy, so, like I said, keep your opinions dry, fresh, and in the pantry.\u00a0 But the album was a dreadful Springsteen Clone, and he spends the entire interview angrily denying that the album is a Springsteen Clone. (Which again, to be fair, he nowadays blames on his management.)\u00a0 Okay, enough about that guy.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8212; I played the Lyons &amp; Clark first, Wednesday night, because I expected to not like the other one much.\u00a0 I was in a very good mood by the time it was over, and I put the other one on.<\/p>\n<p>We Old People are so fond of saying \u201cThere\u2019s no way you could know what it was like,\u201d of course, and I know full well that you young\u2019uns feel the same way when you hear it that WE felt when people said the same thing to us about Lenny Bruce and Coltrane. And, yeah, it\u2019s not really an accurate sentiment. You CAN know what it\u2019s like if you know all or even most of the context. It won\u2019t hit you in the stomach the way it would have done if you were actually IN the Cavern Club in \u201962, but you can get it intellectually. So here\u2019s the context.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRock Music\u201d was in a weird place in the USA in \u201976. Neither our charts nor our radio stations were nearly as homogenised as they were in the UK. If you think you had a deep division, in that regard, in the UK in \u201976, I promise you it was worse in the USA.\u00a0 There was the still-reviled \u201cpunk\u201d over here (The Ramones\u2019 first album was about half a year old and nowhere to be found on the radio) \u00a0\u2013 there was \u201cpop music\u201d over here \u2013 there was disco over here, just beginning its big heyday \u2013 and then there was whatever Bruce Springsteen is over HERE.\u00a0 The Stones, over HERE, had put out the much-reviled (at the time) <em>Black And Blue<\/em> a few months ago. In hindsight, there was nobody driving too fast down the middle of the street in a convertible anymore.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s where we are as &#8216;Rockin\u2019 Around With You&#8217; leaps out of the speakers in my room. Well, to be fair, it doesn\u2019t so much \u201cleap\u201d. \u00a0It sounds like it\u2019s being joined in progress as the football game ends, or something. One of the guitars is picking little harmonics over the drum intro as if he doesn\u2019t know the song has started.<\/p>\n<p>And then suddenly it\u2019s that perfect midpoint between The Byrds at their best and the Jones Stones at THEIR best \u2013 that sounds so familiar now but was so overwhelmingly electrical the night before Thanksgiving \u201976.<\/p>\n<p>I played it again. And I played it about 20 times the next day, before AND after dinner. I called my girlfriend, who had also gone home for the holiday, JUST to tell her how great it was.\u00a0 Forty years on, she probably still remembers this phone call.\u00a0 She was probably also holding the phone a couple of feet away from her head.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/6TLTd0P2CUI0Q29AQ1LyFi\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But it really was THAT important a record. \u00a0It was kind of like someone had suddenly remembered which closet had all the good stuff in it.<\/p>\n<p>I instantly forgave him the name, the smirk, the jacket, the interview, even the bullets.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>First story, part two: wow.\u00a0 I just realised I saved the press release that came with that first album. I pulled out the original LP and looked inside, and there it is.\u00a0 I had never noticed that I had stuck it in there and saved it.\u00a0 Ha.\u00a0 It\u2019s as ridiculous as I remember<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1832 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tom-petty-press-release.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1590\" height=\"4070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tom-petty-press-release.jpg 1590w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tom-petty-press-release-117x300.jpg 117w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tom-petty-press-release-768x1966.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tom-petty-press-release-400x1024.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tom-petty-press-release-100x256.jpg 100w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tom-petty-press-release-150x384.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tom-petty-press-release-200x512.jpg 200w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tom-petty-press-release-300x768.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tom-petty-press-release-450x1152.jpg 450w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tom-petty-press-release-600x1536.jpg 600w, https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/tom-petty-press-release-900x2304.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1590px) 100vw, 1590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Second story:\u00a0 it\u2019s March of 1977.\u00a0 I\u2019m going through a pretty bad time.\u00a0 In <em>The Village Voice<\/em> I\u2019m looking over the weekly ad for [long-gone beloved East Village club] The Bottom Line, and I see the following bill:\u00a0 \u201cRoger McGuinn &amp; Thunderbyrd, and Tom Petty &amp; The Heartbreakers.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Well, YEAH.<\/p>\n<p>Petty\u2019s debt to McGuinn was obvious, in several ways. And McGuinn was a fan. He had\u00a0 covered &#8216;American Girl&#8217; on his latest LP.\u00a0 It was a decent version \u2013 I mean, the song was a complete homage to McGuinn in the first place \u2013 but it didn\u2019t measure up to Petty\u2019s original, not at all. Still, nice to see them on the same bill, for multiple reasons.\u00a0 (Petty\u2019s band had already been to New York once, and played at CBGB, but in my contemporary Personal Tailspin I had somehow not found out about it till after it happened.) The album was not on the radio, anywhere, and I assumed it would just fade into history. So the Bottom Line show would be my Tom Petty And The Cherry-Breaker.<\/p>\n<p>The Heartbreakers, young and hungry, took the stage and no prisoners. They kicked ass even beyond my expectations. Totally slayed the entire audience, none of whom (except me and a couple of others) had come specifically to see them. Standing ovation, and an encore. Pretty darned unusual at that place. I dearly loved The Bottom Line, and miss it, but there was definitely \u201can attitude\u201d among its audiences.<\/p>\n<p>Then McGuinn came out with his band.\u00a0 It was a dreary, sloppy, strained performance. He was drunk, red-faced, and really off his game. In later years he\u2019d readily admit that he was going through a tough time, prone to substance abuse, and a long way from his best.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s fine \u2013 but he made the massive mistake of playing &#8216;American Girl&#8217;. \u00a0AFTER Tom Petty had played it and left the audience gasping for air. \u00a0Even if he had been the once and future McGuinn The Dragonslayer that night, this would have been a very bad idea. As it was, most of the audience looked like the &#8216;Springtime For Hitler&#8217; opening-night crowd when it was over.\u00a0 There was polite applause, of course, but oooooooh.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Third story:\u00a0 November 20, 1977, later that same year.\u00a0 And almost a year to the day after I had stood in the hallway at WFUV scoffing at the photo of the smirky boy in the leather jacket.\u00a0 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are back at the Bottom Line, this time headlining<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t remember exactly when tickets first went on sale \u2013 I think it was mid-October. I saw it in <em>The Voice<\/em> and literally sprinted to The Bottom Line that weekday afternoon. I don\u2019t know why I was in such a hurry \u2013 I wouldn\u2019t have expected it to sell out too quickly. The album still wasn\u2019t being played on the radio much at all, although a couple of songs did appear once in a while. I remember this vividly because I stepped up to the window, made my request, and some second person in the office, way out of view, yelled \u201cTom Petty, YEAH!!\u201d That doesn\u2019t sound particularly noteworthy, but it was. It was being uttered by someone who sounded like he really needed to be in the presence of a kindred spirit. Underlined by the very distinct impression that the girl who was actually handing me the ticket did not seem to have any idea who \u201cTom Peddy\u201d was.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway \u2013 this was a little more than midway between the first and second albums (still my two favourites, by miles) and there hadn\u2019t been any hint of new material. The second LP was roughly half a year away.<\/p>\n<p>I do not remember who the opening act was [someone has since reminded me that it was The Dingoes, from Australia] but I know I got there early. Grabbed that seat right in front of the stage. The one that nobody else ever wanted. The \u201cNostril Seat\u201d, which I had named because of the view it proferred. But I got some great photos there over the years.<\/p>\n<p>This is where I\u2019m supposed to tell you that they were so different the second time, so much better, so much more confident. But that\u2019s not the way it was. It was great, transcendent even \u2013 but that\u2019s how it had been the first time. They got to play a longer set this time, sure, but \u201cmore confident?\u201d No way. They had come out the first time at the top of their game, and they were still there.<\/p>\n<p>It was still pretty much the whole first LP and a cover or two, but they did play one new original, which stuck in my head all the way home and for weeks afterward. &#8216;Listen To Her Heart&#8217;. The second album is gonna be very very good, I said to myself.<\/p>\n<p>And oh, it was. That second LP, <em>You\u2019re Gonna Get It<\/em>, is probably \u2013 along with 1982\u2019s <em>Long After Dark<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Petty\u2019s most-criminally-overlooked work.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/5hULIIwBVNm3cinAAFmv1P\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also noteworthy that I cannot think of \u2013 in the USA, anyway \u2013 another artist so universally beloved by \u201cThe Punks\u201d as well as the mainstream rock fans in those early days.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/2v9bH2lTKHvI4Aevujul6B\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m tempted to go LP by LP here, but I won\u2019t.\u00a0 I\u2019ll just say that I can\u2019t think of another artist who has slung out so very many LPs over such a large temporal acreage and never ever saddled us with a dud. Some songs I could have done without, of course. And some production values at certain times which I also could have done without. But Tom Petty was one of a kind.\u00a0 There won\u2019t be another.<\/p>\n<span class=\"synved-social-container synved-social-container-share\"><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F1831&amp;t=Tom%20Petty%20%E2%80%93%20Farewell&amp;s=100&amp;p[url]=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F1831&amp;p[images][0]=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shindig-magazine.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2017%2F10%2FTom_Petty_and_the_Heartbreakers_1977-1024x710.jpg&amp;p[title]=Tom%20Petty%20%E2%80%93%20Farewell\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F1831&amp;text=New%20post%20on%20our%20site\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Tom%20Petty%20%E2%80%93%20Farewell&amp;body=New%20post%20on%20our%20site:%20https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F1831\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIKE FORNATALE remembers a true American giant The death of a beloved celebrity. Again. Heartfelt tribute after heartfelt tribute. Some brilliantly eloquent ones, some that don\u2019t say much but obviously come straight from the heart, and also many pithy observations like \u201csaw him at nasaau colasium 81 good show\u201d \u00a0\u2013 and you wonder if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[456],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-videos","tag-tom-petty"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}