{"id":384,"date":"2008-06-03T05:36:50","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T10:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/384"},"modified":"2008-06-03T05:36:50","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T10:36:50","slug":"in-philadelphia-its-worth-fifty-bucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/384","title":{"rendered":"In Philadelphia, it&#039;s Worth Fifty Bucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanfranciscosentinel.com\/?p=13510\">Guitarist Bo Diddley dies at 79<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis distinctive, African-based \u2026 rhythm pattern (which goes bomp-bomp-bomp bomp-bomp) was picked up by other artists and has been a distinctive and recurring element in rock \u2018n\u2019 roll through the decades,\u201d according to the Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Guitarist George Thorogood, a Diddley disciple, put it more bluntly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Chuck Berry\u2019s] \u2018Maybellene\u2019 is a country song sped up,\u201d Thorogood told Rolling Stone in 2005. \u201d \u2018Johnny B. Goode\u2019 is blues sped up. But you listen to \u2018Bo Diddley,\u2019 and you say, \u2018What in the Jesus is that?\u2019 \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>bomp-bomp-bomp bomp-bomp. Oh, yeah.  Write it, baby!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014<br \/>\nOkay, that makes three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guitarist Bo Diddley dies at 79 \u201cThis distinctive, African-based \u2026 rhythm pattern (which goes bomp-bomp-bomp bomp-bomp) was picked up by other artists and has been a distinctive and recurring element in rock \u2018n\u2019 roll through the decades,\u201d according to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/384\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}