{"id":11000,"date":"2017-05-10T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T04:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/?p=11000"},"modified":"2018-09-19T22:50:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T14:50:03","slug":"teacher-diaries-mr-rex-non-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/2017\/05\/teacher-diaries-mr-rex-non-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Diaries: Mr. Rex &#8211; Non-Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Stone Roses are my favourite rock band. Fusing the free spirit of the 60s with the\u00a0Balearic dance grooves and pop sensibilities of the 80s, their eponymous debut\u00a0album released in 1989 is widely hailed as one of the best of all time, having inspired\u00a0such acts as Oasis and Franz Ferdinand. The Stone Roses: War and Peace by Simon\u00a0Spence details how the Mancunian four-piece made the leap from an unknown\u00a0indie band to a massive cultural phenomenon with legions of fans all over the UK\u00a0turning up to their gigs in the iconic bucket hats and baggy jeans.<\/p>\n<p>Their success was short-lived, however. Battling court cases with their record label,\u00a0they took years to finish a sophomore album many found disappointing. They\u00a0disbanded in 1996 acrimoniously, leaving the hearts of the fans and the relationship<br \/>\nbetween singer Ian Brown and guitarist John Squire, who had been close friends\u00a0since their grammar school days, in tatters.<\/p>\n<p>When I was relishing the book\u2019s great insights into how the band crafted their\u00a0masterpieces in their heyday, I couldn\u2019t help but ask many \u2018what-ifs\u2019 \u2013 had the Roses\u00a0not split, would they have become another Beatles? Had their bloodsucking manager<br \/>\nbeen less unscrupulous, would their second album have matched the first?\u00a0There are no answers. Life is as precarious as they come, and the sense of\u00a0unfulfillment has only made this unique band even more legendary.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/91koaZ5RL3L-391x600.jpg\" alt=\"91koaz5rl3l\" width=\"391\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/91koaZ5RL3L-391x600.jpg 391w, https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/91koaZ5RL3L-768x1179.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/91koaZ5RL3L-667x1024.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/91koaZ5RL3L.jpg 782w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stone Roses are my favourite rock band. Fusing the free spirit of the 60s with the\u00a0Balearic dance grooves and pop sensibilities of the 80s, their eponymous debut\u00a0album released in 1989 is widely hailed as one of the best of all time, having inspired\u00a0such acts as Oasis and Franz Ferdinand. The Stone Roses: War and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":11001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[713],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12341,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11000\/revisions\/12341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i-learner.edu.hk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}