{"id":568684,"date":"2010-05-18T11:51:39","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T15:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e201348109a24a970c"},"modified":"2010-05-18T11:51:39","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T15:51:39","slug":"we-built-sioux-city-shows-just-how-much-iowa-towns-can-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/568684","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We Built Sioux City&#8217; shows just how much Iowa towns can rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object height=\"265\" style=\"margin: 0pt 8pt 0pt 0px; float: left;\" width=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Gj7_E5Tpdhs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Gj7_E5Tpdhs&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;showinfo=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"330\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The ever-accurate Wikipedia says that Sioux City, Iowa, was originally settled by Native Americans and visited by its first European, a French or Spanish fur trader, sometime before 1804, when Louis and Clark passed through. Wikipedia does note that Sioux City&#8217;s rebirth was &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sioux_City,_Iowa\" >built on a foundation of rock and roll<\/a>,&quot; a claim bolstered by this video. &quot;We Built Sioux City&quot; appropriates Starship&#8217;s &quot;We Built This City,&quot; which <em>Blender<\/em> magazine named the worst song ever in 2004 (and was used previously in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.break.com\/usercontent\/2008\/8\/We-Built-This-Starbucks-552572.html\" >a Starbucks video<\/a> aimed at boosting employee morale). Produced as a promotional video for an Iowa biking event whose route includes Sioux City, the video does present Sioux City as a place where pasty white people can rock out without fear. And why not? There&#8217;s a lot going on. You can even ride a Zamboni around! If you have any doubts, stick around to the end, when Bret Michaels confirms that &quot;Sioux City does rock&quot; \u2026 to no less an interviewer than Joan Rivers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Posted by Todd Wasserman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ever-accurate Wikipedia says that Sioux City, Iowa, was originally settled by Native Americans and visited by its first European, a French or Spanish fur trader, sometime before 1804, when Louis and Clark passed through. Wikipedia does note that Sioux City&#8217;s rebirth was &quot;built on a foundation of rock and roll,&quot; a claim bolstered by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}