{"id":2751,"date":"2011-07-14T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=2751"},"modified":"2011-07-12T06:52:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T10:52:56","slug":"why-is-u2-so-popular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/2751","title":{"rendered":"Why Is U2 So Popular?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an <a title=\"Why Is U2 So Popular?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/Why-is-U2-so-popular\" target=\"_blank\">answer<\/a> on Quora.com:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;On the way, you listen to the &#8216;early stuff.&#8217; Joshua Tree pumps through the speakers of your Lexus SUV (no judgement &#8212; you have two kids!) The harmonies soothe.\u00a0The lyrics are straightforward. You recall a simpler time before car seats and prostate exams.\u00a0The nostalgia is so thick you have to wipe it from your face. You haven&#8217;t looked at your phone in nearly 11 minutes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The set is basically a greatest hits playlist.\u00a0The band graciously performs two new songs that no one recognizes to give you a few minutes to use the john and grab another IPA.\u00a0They might as well flash an intermission sign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Even the political statements go down smooth: &#8216;Democracy!&#8217; &#8216;Fight AIDS!&#8217; How could you possibly disagree? You&#8217;re not only dancing and reminiscing \u2013 you&#8217;re spreading freedom and reasonably-priced medicines to distant lands!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the answer is even better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an answer on Quora.com: &#8220;On the way, you listen to the &#8216;early stuff.&#8217; Joshua Tree pumps through the speakers of your Lexus SUV (no<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/2751\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Is U2 So Popular?<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-culture","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-In","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2751"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2799,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions\/2799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}