{"id":1632,"date":"2014-02-27T05:50:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T05:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2014-02-27T05:50:38","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T05:50:38","slug":"cdthestartingline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/cdthestartingline\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Starting Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/thes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27134\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/thes.jpg\" alt=\"thes\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe Starting Line<br \/>\n&#8220;The Make Yourself At Home EP&#8221;<br \/>\n(Drive-Thru)<\/h4>\n<p>It seems as though everywhere you turn there seems to be another band writing heart on sleeve ballads about girls or &#8220;the one that got away&#8221;. Take a look at what bands are big right now and you&#8217;ll see what I mean; Brand New, New Found Glory, Dashboard Confessional and Saves the Day. The Starting Line&#8217;s new EP can be safely added to that list, the problem being the bastards wrote some good songs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Best Of Me&#8221; will remind you of the first time you fell in love, while &#8220;Playing Favorites&#8221; will only make you yearn for that long distance relationship that just never panned out. Now before you jump down my throat about being a whiny sap, I&#8217;m just as sick of the whole heart-on-the-sleeve trend as you are, but the fact still remains that the Starting Line wrote some great songs.<\/p>\n<p>Forget all the bullshit about trends and check this amazing EP out if you&#8217;re looking for some good songs. \u00a0When all is said and done, isn&#8217;t that what really matters?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Starting Line &#8220;The Make Yourself At Home EP&#8221; (Drive-Thru) It seems as though everywhere you turn there seems to be another band writing heart on sleeve ballads about girls or &#8220;the one that got away&#8221;. Take a look at what bands are big right now and you&#8217;ll see what I mean; Brand New, New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[2235,3622,7636],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}