{"id":85,"date":"2002-08-26T22:22:19","date_gmt":"2002-08-27T02:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=85"},"modified":"2002-08-26T22:22:19","modified_gmt":"2002-08-27T02:22:19","slug":"downhill-from-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Downhill from Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Springsteen is <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/hod\/bd080202.shtml\">bad<\/a>. The Cult of Springsteen is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/taste\/?id=110002169\">worse<\/a>. You can always pick out those home-grown grassroots up-from-the-bottom types: they&#8217;re the ones who show up on the covers of <span class=\"booktitle\">Time<\/span> and <span class=\"booktitle\">Newsweek<\/span> before they ever have a hit. Bonus authenticity points for continuing to write from the point of view of the put-upon 25 years after becoming rich and famous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Springsteen is bad. The Cult of Springsteen is worse. You can always pick out those home-grown grassroots up-from-the-bottom types: they&#8217;re the ones who show up on the covers of Time and Newsweek before they ever have a hit. Bonus authenticity points for continuing to write from the point of view of the put-upon 25 years <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=85' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}