{"id":2092,"date":"2016-12-12T07:29:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T11:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dylanradio.com\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2016-11-17T07:31:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T11:31:12","slug":"2016-listening-party-shot-of-love-aug-12-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/2016-listening-party-shot-of-love-aug-12-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Listening Party: Shot of Love (Aug 12, 1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2093\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dylanradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1981-Shot-Of-Love-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"1981-shot-of-love\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1981-Shot-Of-Love-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1981-Shot-Of-Love-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1981-Shot-Of-Love-768x768.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/1981-Shot-Of-Love.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tune in tonight at 7pm Atlantic for Tonight&#8217;s Listening Party Album: <em><strong>Shot of Love<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\">(6pm Eastern, 5pm Central, 3pm Pacific, 11pm London, 10am Sydney) <\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Shot of Love is the twenty-first studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on August 10, 1981 by Columbia Records. It is considered to be Dylan&#8217;s last of a trilogy of Christian albums. Arrangements are rooted more in rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll, and less in gospel than Dylan&#8217;s two previous albums.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of its release, Shot of Love received mixed reviews; Paul Nelson of Rolling Stone criticised the album, though he did single out the last track &#8220;Every Grain of Sand,&#8221; as a stand-out. Shot of Love, while reaching UK #6, continued Dylan&#8217;s US commercial decline, reaching #33 during a brief chart stay. Bono of Irish band U2 described Shot of Love as one of his favourites, particularly due to Dylan&#8217;s singing ability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tune in tonight at 7pm Atlantic for Tonight&#8217;s Listening Party Album: Shot of Love (6pm Eastern, 5pm Central, 3pm Pacific, 11pm London, 10am Sydney) Shot of Love is the twenty-first studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on August 10, 1981 by Columbia Records. It is considered to be Dylan&#8217;s last of a trilogy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}