{"id":14157,"date":"2025-07-01T00:42:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T00:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14157"},"modified":"2025-07-01T11:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T11:22:17","slug":"europop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14157","title":{"rendered":"Europop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Way back in the 1970s we had to endure a genre of music which is now known as Europop. It was bland and soulless. Except when it wasn\u2019t. Search your favourite music provider for Robin Scott \/ M and have a listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"835\" height=\"833\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0235.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0235.jpeg 835w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0235-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0235-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0235-768x766.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_0235-301x300.jpeg 301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 835px) 100vw, 835px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was peak Cold War Europop, and I remember dancing to &#8216;M&#8217;s Pop Music in a disco in Austria back in the day. It\u2019s still good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in the 1970s we had to endure a genre of music which is now known as Europop. It was bland and soulless. Except when it wasn\u2019t. Search your favourite music provider for Robin Scott \/ M and have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=14157\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travelsandtribulations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}