{"id":2583,"date":"2011-07-26T22:27:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T05:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2011-07-26T22:27:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T05:27:26","slug":"sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/sharks\/","title":{"rendered":"SHARKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2584\" title=\"Sharks-The-Joys-Of-Living-M-Review-May2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Sharks-The-Joys-Of-Living-M-Review-May2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Sharks-The-Joys-Of-Living-M-Review-May2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Sharks-The-Joys-Of-Living-M-Review-May2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>S<\/strong><strong>HARKS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>The Joys of Living<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>myspace.com\/sharks<\/p>\n<p>When the Sharks\u2019 James Mattock sings lines like, \u201cNever allow yourself to forget to run against and through the darkness,\u201d his heart is working harder than his brain\u2014and that\u2019s precisely as it should be. Like their American counterparts in Gaslight Anthem, these tattooed, greasy-haired Brits are rock \u2019n\u2019 roll zealots. They base their faith on two sacred 1978 texts\u2014Bruce Springsteen\u2019s <em>Darkness on the Edge of Town<\/em> and the Clash\u2019s <em>Give \u2019Em Enough Rope<\/em>\u2014as well as works by latter-day prophets Rancid and Social Distortion. Mattock enunciates like Joe Strummer\u2014i.e., not at all\u2014but gets his point across, urging other true believers to stay free and keep searching for the promised land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHARKS The Joys of Living myspace.com\/sharks When the Sharks\u2019 James Mattock sings lines like, \u201cNever allow yourself to forget to run against and through the darkness,\u201d his heart is working harder than his brain\u2014and that\u2019s precisely as it should be. Like their American counterparts in Gaslight Anthem, these tattooed, greasy-haired Brits are rock \u2019n\u2019 roll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,10159,1634,2040,2041,2039],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2585,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions\/2585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}