{"id":295,"date":"2005-07-11T09:56:26","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T17:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/07\/the_crash_and_burn_of_irony_as_evidenced_by_the_wholesale_embrace_of_air_guitar_in_the_sunday_styles_section.html"},"modified":"2005-07-11T09:56:26","modified_gmt":"2005-07-11T17:56:26","slug":"the_crash_and_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/the_crash_and_b.html","title":{"rendered":"The Crash and Burn of Irony as Evidenced by the Wholesale Embrace of Air Guitar in the Sunday Styles Section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not so much a Sunday Styles article that makes you want to flee New York but rather just feel much pity for it: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/07\/10\/fashion\/sundaystyles\/10AIR.html?ex=1278648000&#038;en=56213fd221bdaaef&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">a first-person account of the world of competitive air guitar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This may be the most disturbing thing you&#8217;ll read in a very long time:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>I know the glory of dressing up and fanatically playing an invisible instrument in front of a crowd is not something that everyone immediately grasps. When I tell people I&#8217;ve spent more than two years as a competitive air guitarist, they often look at me bewildered, like a dog tilting its head at an unfamiliar command. Or they just laugh at me.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not so much a Sunday Styles article that makes you want to flee New York but rather just feel much pity for it: a first-person account of the world of competitive air guitar. This may be the most disturbing thing you&#8217;ll read in a very long time: I know the glory of dressing up and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunday_styles_articles_that_make_you_want_to_flee_new_york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}