{"id":15,"date":"2006-02-04T12:40:01","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T17:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54leacock.ca\/wordpress\/?p=15"},"modified":"2006-11-23T15:18:42","modified_gmt":"2006-11-23T20:18:42","slug":"duran-duran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Duran Duran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to matters of consequence, Zev Borow, regular contributor to fine publications such as <a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/\">Spin<\/a>, <a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/\">The New Yorker<\/a> and <a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/store.mcsweeneys.net\/index.cfm\/fuseaction\/about.home\/about_us.cfm\"> McSweeney&#8217;s<\/a>, knows where it&#8217;s at.  About his inspiration to &#8220;cover&#8221; a Duran Duran song for <a target=\"_blank\" onclick=\"popup = window.open('http:\/\/www.chapters.indigo.ca\/item.asp?Item=978074347026&#038;Catalog=Books&#038;Ntt=lit+riffs&#038;N=35&#038;Lang=en&#038;Section=books&#038;zxac=1', 'PopupPage', 'height=460,width=460,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chapters.indigo.ca\/item.asp?Item=978074347026&#038;Catalog=Books&#038;Ntt=lit+riffs&#038;N=35&#038;Lang=en&#038;Section=books&#038;zxac=1\">Lit Riffs<\/a>, he writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I sort of think you can divide the world into people who appreciate Duran Duran, and people who don&#8217;t, and I&#8217;d rather vacation with the people who do.  To me, Duran Duran in general, and &#8220;Rio&#8221; in particular, shimmer with the absolute brain-freeze purity of pop-rock&#8217;s transcendent ridiculousness, whatever that means.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to matters of consequence, Zev Borow, regular contributor to fine publications such as Spin, The New Yorker and McSweeney&#8217;s, knows where it&#8217;s at. About his inspiration to &#8220;cover&#8221; a Duran Duran song for Lit Riffs, he writes: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/?p=15\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/54leacock.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}