{"id":1136,"date":"2008-08-18T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2008-08-18T13:30:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T17:30:13","slug":"the-gap-band-making-charles-goodyear-extremely-proud-in-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=1136","title":{"rendered":"The Gap Band: Making Charles Goodyear Extremely Proud in 1980."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ndBZtFtrC0M\"  target=\"_blank\" title=\"Where there\u2019s smoke there\u2019s fire\u2026\"><img src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/screen9.jpg\" title=\"Where there\u2019s smoke there\u2019s fire\u2026\" alt=\"Where there\u2019s smoke there\u2019s fire\u2026\" align=\"middle\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When inventor Charles Goodyear accidentally dropped a piece of untreated rubber on a hot stove and &#8220;discovered&#8221; vulcanization (&#8220;Mesoamericans&#8221; had mastered the process centuries earlier), he probably never dreamed that, over 140 years later, the notion of burning rubber would lead to a #1 R&amp;B smash for  the GAP Band. Yet, alas.<\/p>\n<p><em>Merci<\/em> to hyper-cool<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalfemme.com\/journal\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Digital Femme<\/a><\/em> Cheryl Lynn for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ndBZtFtrC0M\"  target=\"_blank\">linking to the video<\/a>, which I&#8217;d never seen, despite the track being fundamental as <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XQrRHc31Yxw\" >11-dimensional strings<\/a> when it came to me getting through senior year at Freeport High School. Most of all, though, Lynn argues that &#8220;Burn Rubber On Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)&#8221; should be cited as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalfemme.com\/journal\/index.php?itemid=901\"  target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Reason #525 why Rock Band needs a Funk Band Expansion Pack.&#8221;<\/a> To which I say, hear, hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When inventor Charles Goodyear accidentally dropped a piece of untreated rubber on a hot stove and &#8220;discovered&#8221; vulcanization (&#8220;Mesoamericans&#8221; had mastered the process centuries earlier), he probably never dreamed that, over 140 years later, the notion of burning rubber would lead to a #1 R&amp;B smash for the GAP Band. Yet, alas. Merci to hyper-cool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,52,5,39,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}