{"id":1,"date":"2023-08-24T02:18:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T02:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joebelk.com\/wp\/?p=1"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:26:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:26:45","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joebelk.com\/wp\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Writings about film, music, and other passions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"643\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/joebelk.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_E71341-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joebelk.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_E71341-1.jpg 643w, https:\/\/joebelk.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_E71341-1-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to my site! I&#8217;ve recently published A Fan&#8217;s Calendar, now available at the Lulu Press online bookstore in both paperback and ebook formats. (Go to lulu.com, find Bookstore in the menu options, and then search for Joe Belk.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Fan&#8217;s Calendar is a sprawling, diverse look at essentially everything I&#8217;m interested in regarding popular culture: essentially a memoir primarily focused on interests and enthusiasms. My follow-up work (still in progress) is a detailed celebration of my favorite rock &#8216;n&#8217; roller Chuck Berry and his 1964 masterpiece St. Louis to Liverpool, examining how it fits into his overall career and the pioneering trajectory of the genre overall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the most part, I won&#8217;t be including excerpts in this space, but the people, things, and trends I examine here will no doubt feature some overlap with the themes and ideas in my books. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my site! I&#8217;ve recently published A Fan&#8217;s Calendar, now available at the Lulu Press online bookstore in both paperback and ebook formats. (Go to lulu.com, find Bookstore in the menu options, and then search for Joe Belk.) A Fan&#8217;s Calendar is a sprawling, diverse look at essentially everything I&#8217;m interested in regarding popular&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/joebelk.com\/wp\/?p=1\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Writings about film, music, and other passions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joebelk.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joebelk.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joebelk.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joebelk.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joebelk.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/joebelk.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/joebelk.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joebelk.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joebelk.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joebelk.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}