{"id":635,"date":"2002-07-24T12:01:54","date_gmt":"2002-07-24T20:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/24\/as-long-as-its-depressing\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T13:00:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T21:00:51","slug":"as-long-as-its-depressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/24\/as-long-as-its-depressing\/","title":{"rendered":"As long as it&#8217;s depressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  One of Depeche Mode&#8217;s greatest strengths is also their greatest weakness. The band comes up with some of pop music&#8217;s most inventive lyrics, and at the same time, they always give the impression that they&#8217;ll arbitrarily sing about anything, as long as it&#8217;s depressing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Beth Massa, reviewing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00005BL2A\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Depeche Mode: Exciter\">Depeche Mode&#8217;s &#8216;Exciter&#8217;<\/a> album for Amazon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Depeche Mode&#8217;s greatest strengths is also their greatest weakness. The band comes up with some of pop music&#8217;s most inventive lyrics, and at the same time, they always give the impression that they&#8217;ll arbitrarily sing about anything, as long as it&#8217;s depressing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2035],"tags":[2213,80,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}