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by Alexandra Mrozowska
\u2014 Senior Columnist \u2014<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

When reviewing an album, many ambitious scribes tend to focus primarily on the release\u2019s technical aspects and its overall music content. What often escapes one\u2019s attention, though, is the emotional effort an artist has to make throughout the entire creative process. And what if this experience is even deepened by grief…? And if the challenge is not only to deliver a solid collection of songs, but to carry the torch of someone else\u2019s legacy too?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Berry, an accomplished multi-instrumentalist known from bands such as Hush, Ambrosia and Alliance, knows it well. A member of short-lived late \u201880s \u20183\u2019 project alongside Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer, Berry renewed his collaboration with the former of the two in the mid-2010s \u2013 to see it come to an abrupt halt when Emerson died. One difficult decision  to reboot the project as 3.2 and two albums later, the tribute to the deceased friend and to the body of work done with him is complete. Less than a month before the release of Third Impression <\/em>\u2013 the final part of the trilogy \u2013 via Frontiers Music SRL, we caught up with Robert to discuss it all and more…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hardrock Haven: 3.2 is obviously a continuation of the \u20183\u2019 project you\u2019ve been a part of alongside Carl Palmer and the late Keith Emerson. After Keith\u2019s passing back in 2016, you decided to go on with it. Have you ever had any second thoughts about your decision?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Berry: I had second thoughts before the last album The Rules Have Changed <\/em>came out. Keith and I had decided this [reboot of the \u20183\u2019 project] real quick. 3\u2019s album Live Boston \u201888<\/em> came out [in 2016] and Keith had called me just really saying, \u201cOh my God, we were such a good band, we were so great live…\u201d and everything. I said, \u201cMaybe we should do another one?\u201d, and he replied, \u201cOkay, I\u2019ve got the record contract.\u201d It was all set up and then we lost him right in the middle of it \u2013 and for a year I wasn\u2019t gonna do anything. I just thought I couldn\u2019t go on without Keith being here. It was really devastating to me. But then I started talking to his son, Aaron Emerson. Aaron knew how much we\u2019ve worked on and he encouraged me. The record company, Frontiers Records, encouraged me as well \u2013 they really wanted the album since we were signed to Frontiers anyway before we lost Keith. So I said, \u201cOkay, I\u2019ll finish the album and when it\u2019s done, I\u2019ll let you hear it and [then] we can decide if it should come out.\u201d And I felt that Keith sort of guided me the whole time I was recording that album and it\u2019s hard to explain, but it came out exactly the way that he and I had wanted it to come out. So the record company put it out and it was very successful, so they wanted a follow-up album. And again, I was like, \u201cOh gee, I don\u2019t know…\u201d It was very important to me to keep Keith\u2019s name and the legacy in the best light. I wanted to show that he still had the creativity \u2013 he just lost his path with some other issues, health issues and stuff that came along. Also before this album I\u2019ve been worried about what people are gonna think, you know. But it has one song \u2013 the last song Keith and I wrote \u2013 called \u201cNever\u201d. It\u2019s a really great song and everybody, including Aaron Emerson, encouraged me again. He went, \u201cYou\u2019ve done a great job on that song. It needs to get out. People need to hear it.\u201d So that\u2019s why it\u2019s out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardrock Haven: And is Third Impression<\/em> also exactly how you envisioned it to be, the same as it was with the previous one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Berry: Well, the previous one had quite a few songs that Keith and I wrote. There was only two on there that I didn\u2019t write with him. And on this one, there\u2019s only one that Keith and I wrote together… So like I said, I wasn\u2019t gonna do this album except for Frontiers really wanted me to do a follow-up. I told them, \u201cIf I can write the album and record the album before I finish the song that Keith and I worked on, which is called \u201cNever\u201d \u2013 if I can get a good enough album \u2013 then I\u2019ll finish \u201cNever\u201d and I\u2019ll let you put it out.\u201d But until it was done, I didn\u2019t know what it would be like and again, I felt like I was guided by the memory of Keith, the influence of Keith and my time with him… I just felt like he was with me making up these songs, even though he\u2019s not here. And I won\u2019t be able to do it again. This is the last in the \u20183\u2019 series. But I\u2019m very happy with it \u2013 really happy with the songs \u2013 and I do feel it represents what Keith and I had decided was gonna be our direction and what we were gonna try to accomplish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardrock Haven: Absolutely. You\u2019ve mentioned \u201cNever\u201d quite a few times and that\u2019s one really special song, but there\u2019s also another one on the album that\u2019s very emotional as well… Could you please elaborate on inspiration behind \u201cA Bond Of Union\u201d?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Berry: I lost my mom a year and a half ago and I wrote this song for her. But I never got to play it for anybody or sing it at a funeral or anything for her… It\u2019s funny \u2018cause when I was growing up, I always wanted to be my dad. My dad had a band, my dad had a music store \u2013 he did all kinds of things… But it was my mom who really made me who I was. When I didn\u2019t wanna practice my piano, she made me practice it; when I wanted to sing, she found me a singing teacher \u2013 everything along the way… When I was twelve years old and I had these guys that were eighteen that got me into their band, she would drop me off at the college parties at eight o\u2019clock and pick me up at one thirty in the morning, so I could play with the band. She really moved my musical life in ways that I could never imagine. So when she died, I had to write something important to me. It was very personal, but when it was done, I felt like it spoke to everybody \u2013 no matter if it\u2019s their parents or somebody that nurtured their life as they were growing up. And you know, to nurture a life it may not always mean that it was the best way to be raised. Sometimes, having parents that are mean or don\u2019t support you can make you become who you become too, because you fight them and you struggle to be what you want. Other times, like with me, they supported me in exactly what I wanted to do. And \u201cA Bond Of Union\u201d is about that bond, good or bad \u2013 whatever it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardrock Haven: And what does inspire you as a songwriter in general?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Berry: That\u2019s a hard question, because I don\u2019t really know! I have a recording studio \u2013 right now you\u2019re speaking to me at my studio Soundtek… And every day, Monday to Friday anyway, a songwriter comes in with their song and I work with them to produce the music track and to make a foundation for their singing of that song, to be as strong and as perfect as possible. I work with so many artists on their songs that when I write my own songs, they just kind of come out of me and I don\u2019t know where they come from. It just happens and I would say that any second of any day I can actually write a song \u2013 but it\u2019s usually when I need one. A lot of times, I won\u2019t write unless I have an album coming out or I have a project I need to write something for. But I always have ideas and that\u2019s one thing that Keith and I had in common. You know, as we speak I have a piano in front of me in the studio which I use to get singers in tune (playing). Keith had a piano in his room and of course he was playing really fancy stuff (playing in Keith Emerson\u2019s elaborate style). And we would write like that, back and forth. He always had ideas and I would always have to interpret them as… you know, I play keyboards, but I\u2019m no Keith Emerson (laughs). So I played it a lot slower, but we would throw ideas like that \u2013 back and forth, all the time. He always had ideas and I always have ideas, it\u2019s just the way I am. So, when it comes to writing a song, really I guess the hardest part is what\u2019s inspired me in terms of lyrics. And that\u2019s just a word sometimes. It could be your name and I\u2019m like, \u201cOh, I\u2019ll write the song!\u201d and here we go. I start writing and it just comes out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardrock Haven: While discussing your creative process, obviously we have to mention again that a part of 3.2 was the process of assembling different song ideas and musical fragments from the time you worked on the material with Keith Emerson. How challenging was it to put it all together?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Berry: Oh boy, it\u2019s hard. It\u2019s difficult but I enjoy it, so it was not difficult for me if that makes sense. It\u2019s very tedious, it\u2019s time-consuming and everything has to be perfect from the sound of the keyboard to the beat of the drums… Everything has to be just right, because I feel a responsibility to make sure it represents Keith in the best possible way and shows people his genius and that he still had it and still created. Especially on the song \u201cNever\u201d as the last thing Keith and I ever worked on together and the last thing he ever did… So there\u2019s a whole pressure I put upon myself to make sure that everything\u2019s just right according to what I think. Now, of course, the other pressure is [that] when it\u2019s gonna be released, I\u2019m gonna be worried about it \u2018cause it\u2019s all come from my mind and my fingers and my playing and I don\u2019t know what people are gonna think. So like with you, if you have a favorite song \u2013 if you like \u201cNever\u201d \u2013 that makes me so much happier and more comfortable. But the day before the album comes out, the day before you hear it, I\u2019m very worried, \u2018cause I don\u2019t know what you will think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardrock Haven: And speaking about people\u2019s opinions, back in the late \u201880s the results of your collaboration with Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer didn\u2019t meet some critics\u2019 expectations. If you could go back in time and change anything about [the 1988 \u20183\u2019 project\u2019s album] To The Power of Three<\/em>, would you later anything about it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Berry: Yes, that\u2019s a great perspective and a great question, because when Keith and I sat down to do [an album] twenty seven years later, it was to do the album that we thought should be the follow-up from what we learnt recording [the first album] in 1987 and releasing [it] in 1988 and touring in 1988. We knew more of what we should be doing. The first album was put together very quickly \u2013 we had a record contract and we went on tour very fast, so we didn\u2019t have time to develop as a band. Twenty seven years later, we had a lot of time to think about it… Definitely Geffen Records had been grooming me for a sort of a \u201cBryan Adams meets Sting\u201d kind of artist, as straight Rock with some creativity in it. Some of those songs wound up on the \u20183\u2019 album and even though I liked the songs, they weren\u2019t really right for Keith Emerson. Carl had played in Asia, so the fans were more accepting of Carl playing in songs that weren\u2019t super Progressive. But Keith\u2019s [fans], they weren\u2019t accepting. There were a couple of fans in general that would send him letters saying, \u201cOh, you shouldn\u2019t be doing this \u2013 this is like Carl did in Asia,\u201d \u201cThis is not for Keith Emerson \u2013 you\u2019re ruining your legacy\u201d… And Keith was susceptible to criticism. He didn\u2019t like it and that\u2019s what broke up the band. But in hindsight, they used a lot of my songs that I don\u2019t think were right for the album, but the record company wanted them. So yes, I would definitely go back and do more songs like \u201cTalkin\u2019 Bout\u201d and \u201cDesde La Vida\u201d \u2013 and even \u201cLover To Lover\u201d had more of an Emerson flair to it. Songs that I wrote, like \u201cRunaway\u201d… I love the song, but it wasn\u2019t right for Keith. We had a song called \u201cChains\u201d on it that was written by somebody else [Sue Shifrin and Bob Marlette]. Again, a great song, but it wasn\u2019t right for the band. At the time, though, I was just so excited \u2013 remember, I was the new kid… I didn\u2019t have that much of a career. I had a local band!… That was so exciting to be able to work with my hero Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardrock Haven: I can imagine. So, To The Power of Three <\/em>had this AOR vibe to it and obviously your other bands and projects, such as Alliance for example, have it as well and even more so. Where does this musical diversity come from?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Berry: When I started, my band Hush \u2013 my local band here \u2013 was a Progressive band, and then we changed into a straight Rock band in the early \u201880s. My roots are in Progressive music… I played ELP songs, Yes songs, Genesis songs and all this \u2013 and that\u2019s what my love is, for the real \u2018musical\u2019 kind of music… I still like singing the straight Rock too, but I like to keep them separate. And the first \u20183\u2019 album \u2013 To The Power of Three<\/em> album \u2013 mixed them together too much. I think the last album The Rules Have Changed<\/em> and the new album Third Impression<\/em> are more of a better mix of Progressive Rock with the little bit of the AOR overtones in there. But it\u2019s still progressive, it\u2019s still creative. On the \u20183\u2019 album, we\u2019ve had a few progressive, creative songs and then some that were really AOR \u2013 and I think that was a little confusing at the time. So, Alliance you\u2019ve mentioned is with my friend from Boston, Gary Pihl, and David Lauser from Sammy Hagar\u2019s band \u2013 that\u2019s straight Rock and we keep it that. We don\u2019t get progressive or anything; it\u2019s just straight Rock and I do like singing that. But it\u2019s [that] I keep it separate from my Progressive stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardrock Haven: And in which ways did all those different bands add to your arsenal and your development as a musician and a songwriter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Berry: I\u2019ve already told you what I do here in the studio every day, working with singers-songwriters. They come in and I play all the instruments, but it\u2019s more important that I sort of arrange their songs and build them the right way. I have learnt many different styles here, because I do have a studio where I record every kind of music. And in every band I\u2019m in, I usually write a lot of the songs. That\u2019s one of the reasons that I\u2019ve worked with different bands and different record companies ask me to write songs with the band because they don\u2019t have as many ideas anymore. So I guess I\u2019ve developed that over the years where I always have an idea, I always have the style of that band. Take GTR with Steve Howe [also Yes, Asia etc.], even before I was with \u20183\u2019. I joined Steve Howe in GTR and I looked at their first album and I thought, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t sound like a GTR which stands for the guitar. It sounds like a lot of synthesizers, and I think GTR should sound more like guitars and it should have a little more of this Yes vocals and a lot more of Steve Howe\u2019s guitar.\u201d So when I went about writing with Steve Howe, I brought those pieces out. When I played in the band Ambrosia, which was soulful kind of music, I wrote songs and tried to bring out more soulful stuff. So I identify what I think what the band does the best, and I bring out those ideas in myself because I\u2019ve done a lot of work in the studio. With Alliance \u2013 same thing. It\u2019s straight Rock with a drummer from the Sammy Hagar [band] and the guitar player from Boston, and that\u2019s straight Rock stuff. And I try to instill those styles and that thinking into that band. But when it comes to just me being me, I think you\u2019ll find that Third Impression <\/em>is more exactly what I do, \u2018cause I like the perfect blend of guitar and keyboards and Third Impression <\/em>has a lot of that going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardrock Haven: As it was already mentioned, you\u2019re classically trained and also educated in music, but what do you think was more valuable in your career \u2013 education or your experience and practice as a musician and a producer?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Berry: For me, I\u2019m sort of an unusual combination of all that. I had eight years of classical piano and majored in music in college, so there\u2019s a lot of structure and a lot of capability in the playing and everything you\u2019ve learnt. I majored in voice in college, so I had to sing opera too, German, French, Italian… But to do what I do now and to sing the way I sing, I had to leave it all behind and forget that training. I had to learn more from the street, you know, from working with Sammy Hagar and whoever in the studio. I had to learn from the ground up, not from the books, let\u2019s say. It\u2019s a combination of that education and schooling and practicing all these years that makes me capable of doing what I do with the third \u20183\u2019 album, the 3.2 album. But it\u2019s my streetwise training from Sammy Hagar or Greg Kihn I work with now and whoever else that lets me write the kind of songs and the type of lyrics and sing the way I sing. So I guess it sort of flows out of me from life experiences in what I do, but it\u2019s the education that makes me capable of then putting it together and producing it the way I want it to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardrock Haven: You\u2019ve also released a couple of solo albums throughout the years, and usually musicians do that either to redefine themselves or avoid compromises with other members of the bands they\u2019re in. And how is it in your case?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Berry: I\u2019ve mentioned that I always have ideas for song and that I always can make [a song] on the spot if I need to write something or need to record something. And what happened with my first solo album [Back To Back<\/em>, 1985] is [having] an album of songs I couldn\u2019t use for my band Hush. They were just different. So I put them all on the album and I sent it out to record companies and that\u2019s when Geffen heard it and liked what I was doing. So I didn\u2019t have a purpose for that except for there were songs that I couldn\u2019t use anywhere else in the bands I was in. And all of a sound that one wound up being a magical album for me that opened my career to a more international level. Later on, it was Frontiers Records\u2019 President Serafino [Perugino] who found me on the old social network MySpace and said, \u201cI really think you\u2019re a great artist.\u201d And I thought, \u201cAnd who is this guy?\u201d So I said, \u201cI see you work for Frontiers Records, so if I want to do an album for the label, who would I talk to?\u201d And he said, \u201cI\u2019m the President, so you\u2019d talk to me. When do you wanna do the album?\u201d And all of a sudden I had to write an album, which I did. So I don\u2019t do it for change or reboot or anything. I just do it because that I have a lot of material and a lot of ideas and it seems like there\u2019s an outlet for that through record companies or through bands. And you know, I gotta say I\u2019m just very, very lucky that I keep getting these connections and getting to do these things… I guess it\u2019s hard to explain. I\u2019m just very lucky!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardrock Haven: A matter of talent too! These days we have many projects and bands that don\u2019t tour for various reasons, but I believe the last time you toured quite extensively was in 2019. Do you plan to provide a live support for Third Impression<\/em> too as soon as the situation with the live music industry is back to normal?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Berry: Definitely. I put together a great band and we did a twenty-seven-city tour here at the West Coast and East Coast, and we were planning to go to Europe in 2020, but of course everything got shut down. We can\u2019t wait to have things open up so we can get out and support this album. Also, the [2019] tour involved my whole history \u2013 from the label Magna Carta I was on to the solo albums that Serafino had me do for Frontiers, to the \u20183\u2019 album and The Rules Have Changed<\/em>… and now it will include Third Impression <\/em>as well. So when things do open up and we get back out there, my history is even longer and more involved and I\u2019d play a few more songs. And as I said, I put together a great band. There\u2019s Andrew Colyer from the band called Circuline \u2013 a fantastic keyboard player, and he had to learn all Keith\u2019s parts from \u201cKarn Evil 9\u201d and my solo albums and the \u20183\u2019 album… He did a fantastic job. Jimmy Keegan is a drummer from Spock\u2019s Beard \u2013 a fantastic drummer and a great singer who sings all our harmonies. And there\u2019s also [the guitarist] Paul Keller, who\u2019s been with me since my first band Hush, a local band that did well here in the Silicon Valley area… Paul and I have been playing together for forty years. So it\u2019s a really good band and we brought that history of music out and we had such a good time that we can\u2019t wait to do it again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardrock Haven: Speaking about the concerts, many reviewers praised your including the reworked versions of Progressive Rock classics in the set \u2013 songs by Yes or Jethro Tull, for example \u2013 which originate from the series of tribute albums you\u2019ve been a part of. Also the first album by \u20183\u2019 featured a reworked version of The Byrds\u2019 classic \u201cEight Miles High\u201d. What kind of experience is it to rearrange something that is so deeply rooted in people\u2019s memory in its original form?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Berry: That\u2019s a great question, because I have taken on top songs of a lot of those bands. Like in the past, when Magna Carta called me and said they wanna do a [Jethro Tull] tribute album, I said that I don\u2019t wanna work on that. I don\u2019t like it when new players play exactly what the old players have been playing \u2013 they just copy it and they put out their version. If I\u2019m gonna listen to Jethro Tull, I wanna hear Jethro Tull. No one\u2019s gonna do it better. That is, unless somebody has an idea \u2013 which I had [for Jethro Tull]. I thought, \u201cIf I make the beat stronger and I make the key of the song change in the chorus for my vocals sound like me and not like I\u2019m copying Ian Anderson and I make it stronger, kind of more rockin\u2019… then I\u2019ll do it.\u201d And the record company said, \u201cWell, okay, do it and let us see.\u201d And they loved it! And I have a letter from Ian Anderson saying how much he liked my version of \u201cMinstrel In The Gallery\u201d. It\u2019s different, but it pays tribute to all the important parts. And actually I told Magna Carta the same thing when they were doing the Yes tribute album. I said, \u201cIf I can do \u201cRoundabout\u201d, I\u2019ll do it.\u201d And they said, \u201cThat\u2019s an iconic Yes song \u2013 are you sure you wanna take that on?\u201d My answer was, \u201cYes, I do, because I\u2019m gonna do what I think Yes would do right now and I\u2019m gonna ask Steve Howe to play at the end of it with me.\u201d So I started \u201cRoundabout\u201d and I made it much heavier \u2013 I turned down to D, low key, and I changed the bass line a little bit. And again, I\u2019ve got a letter from Steve Howe telling me he likes the bass line better than the original, and he loves the version… and then of course he played the end part, he played the acoustic guitar (humming). He played that for me. So, it was a challenge for me to do these songs but also, as a fan of those bands, I thought I knew what the bands would accept and think \u201cThat\u2019s cool.\u201d And also with the fans, who would say \u201cWow, I like that. It\u2019s not changed so much that it\u2019s a different song, but it definitely has a different interpretation.\u201d And it\u2019s a bit of a puzzle and something I enjoy doing if it\u2019s a song I love. And so far I\u2019m very lucky; even \u201cKarn Evil 9\u201d with Jordan Rudess [Dream Theater] is an amazing version that Keith thought to be really great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardrock Haven: Definitely. And as we discuss rearranging classic songs, we can\u2019t forget another side project of yours which is December People \u2013 A Classic Rock Christmas. What\u2019s inspired the project and how important is its contribution to charity for you on a personal level?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Berry: (laughs) The charity part of that project is very important. All the guys in that band are from famous bands and we believe that if every little town or city took care of their own people, we could reduce hunger and homelessness \u2013 not a global effort, but right there in your own town. We should take care of our own, so that\u2019s our motto. But December People came about because a record company asked me to do a Christmas album and I said, \u201cI don\u2019t wanna do a Christmas album, I don\u2019t wanna play Christmas songs!\u201d And they said, \u201cWe want you to do a Christmas album and you\u2019d figure out how to do it.\u201d And I thought about it, and I thought, \u201cYou know what? I\u2019ll do the classic Christmas carols that you can sing already, but I\u2019ll do them in the style of famous bands that you know.\u201d Like \u201c\u2019Twas The Night Before Christmas\u201d done in the style of \u201cStairway To Heaven\u201d. So you know exactly how the song\u2019s gonna be sung, \u2018cause you know the melody from when you were little, but you don\u2019t know the style and it makes that a mystery and it makes it something special to put together and see if it\u2019s gonna work. I tried it, and the record company loved it \u2013 we have four or five albums out now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hardrock Haven: So before we run out of time, what are your plans for 2021 and any message you\u2019d like to wrap our conversation with?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Berry: Well, we\u2019re gonna try to tour at the end of the year, if things open up. We\u2019re excited about it. And I\u2019m really proud of Third Impression<\/em> and I just hope that people will like it and watch these really great videos that have been done and are [available] on YouTube. And I appreciate your time \u2013 you\u2019ve been great to talk to \u2013 so I hope you\u2019ll like the album too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo credits: Dave Lepori<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit Robert Berry online<\/a> and on his Facebook page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Alexandra Mrozowska\u2014 Senior Columnist \u2014 When reviewing an album, many ambitious scribes tend to focus primarily on the release\u2019s technical aspects and its overall music content. What often escapes one\u2019s attention, though, is the […]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":69189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[15290,15291,15293,15292,13718,15294,15295,203,15289,15287,15288],"class_list":{"0":"post-69187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-interviews-recent","8":"tag-3-2","9":"tag-3-2-2","10":"tag-alliance","11":"tag-ambrosia","12":"tag-carl-palmer","13":"tag-december-people","14":"tag-hush","15":"tag-interview","16":"tag-keith-emerson","17":"tag-robert-berry","18":"tag-third-impression"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}