{"id":157,"date":"2011-11-09T06:37:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apsaramusic.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2023-04-30T21:28:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T21:28:25","slug":"rem-automatic-for-the-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/apsaramusic.com\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"FRESHMAN THEME: REM&#8217;S &#8216;AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/apsaramusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/AutomaticPeople.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-158\" title=\"REM's Automatic for the people\" src=\"http:\/\/apsaramusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/AutomaticPeople-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/apsaramusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/AutomaticPeople-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/apsaramusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/AutomaticPeople-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/apsaramusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/AutomaticPeople.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In keeping with our theme of &#8220;looking back, looking ahead,&#8221; an <em>Apsara<\/em> reader from Saint Louis shared <a href=\"http:\/\/remhq.com\/\">REM&#8217;S<\/a> <em>Automatic for the People<\/em> as a favorite album from a pivotal era of his life.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This album was practically the theme for my freshman year in college, and I played it constantly. I think it was also a good album for that time in my life, when I was transitioning from one stage to another.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, this was an important album for me around this same time too.<\/p>\n<p>It was sort of permanently on loan from my friend across the hallway, and I played &#8220;Man on the Moon&#8221; and the &#8220;Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight&#8221; endlessly\u2014until I finally had to give it back.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Man on the Moon&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-7f794aec5ca12f1f43d9a0c777c864d8 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dLxpNiF0YKs?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Good memories&#8211;thanks for sharing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In keeping with our theme of &#8220;looking back, looking ahead,&#8221; an Apsara reader from Saint Louis shared REM&#8217;S Automatic for the People as a favorite album from a pivotal era of his life. &#8220;This album was practically the theme for my freshman year in college, and I played it constantly. I think it was also &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/apsaramusic.com\/?p=157\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FRESHMAN THEME: REM&#8217;S &#8216;AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[72,73,14],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight","tag-band","tag-pop","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/apsaramusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/apsaramusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/apsaramusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/apsaramusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/apsaramusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/apsaramusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"http:\/\/apsaramusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/apsaramusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/apsaramusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/apsaramusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}