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DIMINO – Rockin\u2019 In The Cities<\/strong><\/span>
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The inaugural solo effort from vocalist Frank DiMino, of Washington D.C., United States-based rock outfit Angel \u2013 July 2015 full-length Old Habits Dies Hard<\/em> \u2013 was conceived during a dinner conversation with friend Ken Ciancimino. Ciancimino queried with Frank about the possibility of cutting a debut solo affair, the conversation continuing from there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought \u2018Okay…,\u2019\u201d Frank remembers. \u201cI\u2019ve always been in a band situation; I\u2019ve never really been in a solo thing. I\u2019m used to working within a band context, but the more he brought it up to me and the more we talked and stuff. I thought \u2018Well… Maybe it could be a nice challenge to shed any kind of preconceived notions of what the album should sound like.\u2019 If I did do a solo album, I thought I could just write some good songs, and not worry about the direction. I could just write them and just go forward, so I said \u2018Okay. Let\u2019s try it.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cHe talked to Serafino (Perugino, founder) from Frontiers, and so Serafino asked me to send him a song. The song that I sent him is the only song on the album that wasn\u2019t written for the album, and that\u2019s \u2018Even Now\u2019. That was a song that Barry (Brandt, Angel drummer) and I had written earlier, so I sent him that \u2013 I had an earlier version of it. He said \u2018Yeah, absolutely. Let\u2019s do the album,\u2019 so then I had an album to do (laughs). I talked with Oz Fox (Stryper guitarist); I have a local band out here with him \u2013 we play around town \u2013 called Vinyl Tattoo. I also talked with a good friend of mine named Jeff LaBansky, who I had written with before. Between the three of us, we started writing with each other, and came up with all new material. <\/p>\n

\u201cI then got Paul Crook involved. Paul\u2019s the musical director for Meat Loaf. My feeling was the sound of the band I wanted to be consistent, so that\u2019s why I used the guys in Meat Loaf for a consistent bed track. Even though we were having other people sit in and play stuff, I wanted the same guys \u2013 the same drummer, the same bass player, and the same keyboard player \u2013 to do all of the bed tracks, so that\u2019s why we ended up using John Miceli (drums), and Danny Miranda (bass), and Justin Avery (organ). I know those guys. I\u2019ve seen them many times with Meat Loaf, because I\u2019m good friends with Paul. I play with him, jamming around and stuff, so I know them all. So, I was very comfortable with all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ken Ciancimino functioned as executive producer on behalf of Old Habits Die Hard<\/em>. \u201cHe kind of put everything together for me by talking with Serafino, and being my liaison between all of that stuff, and just getting everyone together,\u201d the frontman explains. \u201cWhen I said that I wanted to do the album, we talked about it. He was just the guy that got everything together for me, and we had him sing on one of the tracks as well (laughs). He sings on \u2018Mad As Hell\u2019. He sings the \u2018Mad as…\u2019; the background there, he\u2019s singing (laughs).\u201d<\/p>\n

Albeit lending backing vocals to \u2018Mad As Hell\u2019, Ken isn\u2019t a musician per se. \u201cI don\u2019t think he has a whole lot of a musical background, but he\u2019s good friends with Glenn Hughes (vocalist, ex-Deep Purple \/ ex-Black Sabbath<\/a>) and David Coverdale (vocalist, Whitesnake \/ ex-Deep Purple),\u201d Frank notes. \u201cI believe Glenn is the godfather of one of his kids and stuff, so he\u2019s been around music for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite boasting a pedigree dating back as far as at least 1975 courtesy of his Angel association, this is the first occasion that the possibility of a solo outing has been broached with the singer. \u201cOther stuff, it\u2019s always been working within a band concept,\u201d he observes. \u201cEven when I started with this solo project, everyone thought \u2018What\u2019s the band gonna be called? You\u2019ve got a band?\u2019 My reaction is \u2018No, I don\u2019t.\u2019 I have players that I can use and at some point there will be a band, but to do the album? No. I\u2019m doing what I wanted to do, and that was to make a good album with good songs. When they asked me about what direction, even in my conversations with Jeff and Oz about what direction we were gonna be writing in, my thought was that I didn\u2019t want to limit us to that. I just wanted to write good songs, and choose which ones we wanna use. That\u2019s how we went about doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In all, Old Habits Die Hard<\/em>\u2019s track listing boasts 11 compositions. \u201c\u2018Even Now\u2019 was the 11th song \u2013 that was the one that Barry and I wrote prior to the album \u2013 but all of the other songs are all new and especially written for the album,\u201d Frank reveals. \u201cThere are a couple of songs that didn\u2019t end up on the album. I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m gonna do with those yet, but they\u2019re relatively finished songs. One of them is completely finished. Another one is finished, but it\u2019s not recorded finished. It\u2019s just in a demo state \u2013 two songs are in a demo state. When I do the next album, I think it\u2019ll probably be new songs all over again. I think that\u2019s the way to approach it, because it keeps you more in tune with what\u2019s going on at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Co-authorship transpired in the traditional sense. \u201cWhen I wrote the stuff with Jeff, we were both looking at each other, and facing each other, and writing \u2013 coming up with ideas, laying them down, and recording them, coming up with a rough vocal melody \u2013 and the same thing with Oz,\u201d the musician informs. \u201cWe were both in the same room and facing each other when we wrote stuff, although with a couple of things, Oz had some ideas and just sent them to me. He said \u2018I have an idea. Should I send it to you?\u2019 I said \u2018Yeah, absolutely. Send it to me,\u2019 so he sent it to me. What we did was we went back to his place, and we demoed them out and arranged them verse \/ chorus \/ verse \/ chorus how we wanted them, and all that stuff. We made a demo of all of the stuff, and that\u2019s how… We brought it to Paul, and then I got the other guys involved that were gonna record it, giving them our ideas or my idea about what I wanted for drum tracks and stuff like that. That\u2019s how we went about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Frank\u2019s co-writers consisted of Barry Brandt, Jeff LaBansky, and Oz Fox. \u201cSo, Barry wrote one song, Jeff and I wrote six songs together, and Oz and I wrote four songs together,\u201d he lists. \u201cThe ones that Oz and I wrote are \u2018Rockin\u2019 In The City\u2019, \u2018Never Again\u2019, \u2018Stones By The River\u2019, and \u2018The Quest\u2019, and the stuff with Jeff is \u2018Sweet Sensation\u2019, \u2018I Can\u2019t Stop Loving You\u2019, \u2018The Rain\u2019s About To Fall\u2019, \u2018Mad As Hell\u2019, \u2018Tears Will Fall\u2019 and \u2018Tonight\u2019s The Night\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given his Stryper association, some listeners might assume Oz Fox\u2019s contributions are more metal-oriented. \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d the lyricist considers. \u201cI didn\u2019t look at it that way. I just thought about writing songs together. I didn\u2019t want to go into it with the idea of \u2018This has to be a heavy song\u2019 or \u2018That has to be…\u2019 Whatever we worked on and however it came out is the direction that we stayed in.\u201d<\/p>\n

As well as co-writing tracks in the traditional sense, Frank and the co-writers in question discussed the task at hand. \u201cIt was always conversations, whether it was over the phone or whatever,\u201d he shares. \u201cOz, Paul Crook and myself, we all live out here, so that was the easy part. Talking with everyone else was always over the phone or emails and stuff, but yeah, the communication on this album was always open. Everyone had an open ear for all of the communication going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Musically speaking, Old Habits Die Hard<\/em> remains true to the performer\u2019s roots. \u201cI think the best way to describe the album is good songs with a great sound,\u201d he compliments. \u201cI think the songs are power songs. It\u2019s a back to 70s sound for me \u2013 that\u2019s what it is. I look at it as 70s kind of sounding with an upgrade because of all the things that we can do now as opposed to what it used to be, but the concentration was on songs \u2013 writing good songs \u2013 and I think that we accomplished that with the stuff that we have.\u201d<\/p>\n

Music listeners inevitably have varying interpretations of what constitutes the 70s sound. \u201cThe 70s sound, I think it\u2019s a little bit more straightforward,\u201d Frank critiques. \u201cIt\u2019s not quite as contrived. When I think of the 70s, I think of Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin<\/a>, and all of those bands. The Jeff Beck Group \u2013 I love The Jeff Beck Group. A lot of them were songs; you remember Bad Company\u2019s stuff, and all of those songs. When they start playing those songs, you go \u2018Oh, wow. That\u2019s a great song,\u2019 and it\u2019s very simple stuff. There\u2019s not a whole lot of stuff going on. I think it\u2019s good sounding instruments recorded really well, and really kind of simple stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Led Zeppelins, Deep Purples and so forth of that period influenced the resultant material present on Old Habits Die Hard<\/em>. \u201cI think you can\u2019t help but be influenced by everything that you hear and grew up with,\u201d the vocalist concedes. \u201cI guess two of my favourite bands would\u2019ve been The Beatles and Led Zeppelin, so I kind of mix that together with good songwriting and heavy guitars. I think that kind of comes out on this album, not that there weren\u2019t a lot of other bands that I was influenced by (laughs). I think off the top of my head though, those are the two.\u201d<\/p>\n

Albeit a fan of vintage classic rock, Frank is nevertheless a fan of certain acts that have emerged in recent years as well. \u201cI like the first Audioslave album (Audioslave<\/em>, November 2002),\u201d he names. \u201cTo me, that\u2019s still new I guess (laughs). It\u2019s a great album; I like Chris Cornell\u2019s voice, and the guitars on that are really heavy sounding. I think a lot of the bands nowadays are more influenced by the drums more than anything else, which is kind of different. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have a pretty wide variety of listening though, so I listen to everybody. Also, having two songs that are in their 20s, I hear a lot of the newer stuff as well. Oddly enough, my younger son still listens to The Beatles and Led Zeppelin (laughs). My older son listens to this really heavy guitar-oriented band… I can\u2019t think of their name off the top of my head… Mastodon. There\u2019s a couple of them, but the names are not easy to remember any more (laughs). So, I kind of listen to everything. I try to be open enough to listen to everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chris Cornell was arguably born at the wrong time, his voice perfectly suited towards classic rock material in the 70s vein. \u201cYeah, you\u2019re absolutely right,\u201d the frontman agrees. \u201cEspecially some of that Audioslave stuff, and that first album; there\u2019s some great stuff on that album.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although a fan of Chris Cornell\u2019s voice, Frank isn\u2019t as big a fan of Soundgarden \u2013 the act which Cornell is best known for fronting. \u201cI think with Soundgarden, it was a little bit more hit or miss,\u201d he judges. \u201cI love… What was that one?… \u2018Follow me into the desert\u2019<\/em> (\u2018Burden In My Hand\u2019, from May 1996\u2019s Down On The Upside<\/em>)… My mind\u2019s gone. I can\u2019t think of the song (laughs). It\u2019s hit or miss. I love some of the songs, but then some of the songs I\u2019m not so enamoured with. I love his first solo album as well, though \u2013 Euphoria Mourning<\/em> (September 1999). I love that album.\u201d<\/p>\n

Critiqued against the material he recorded as a member of Angel, the singer views Old Habits Die Hard<\/em> differently. \u201cSound wise, it\u2019s totally different,\u201d he reckons. \u201cAngel had a particular audience that we played to and we wrote together, so we wrote with that specific idea in mind. With my solo thing, luckily for me, I was able to shed that stuff. Of course, you\u2019re gonna hear some of that Angel influence in there in the record, but there\u2019s also all kinds of different influences going on. I think the main thing is because it was a solo album, I wasn\u2019t locked into the Angel sound itself, which I\u2019m not saying is a bad thing. Because it\u2019s a solo album, it\u2019s not ever gonna be an Angel album. Without the other four guys, it\u2019s not gonna be an Angel album. I think this stuff is different than the Angel stuff; so as long as you\u2019ve shed that and you\u2019re ready to listen to it as a solo album, I think you will really enjoy it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Vocal melodies as well as lyrics go together hand in hand. \u201c\u2018Tears Will Fall\u2019, that was the one song where I was very concerned with the lyrics,\u201d Frank mentions. \u201cI wanted it to be right, so I rewrote that a few times. I just wanted it to work with the song, and with the melody. It had to say something, so that\u2019s why I really kind of worked and reworked that one. The other ones, I think a lot of them kind of lent themselves to the melody that I came up with. When I was working with the melody, like for \u2018Rockin\u2019 In The City\u2019… I had the melody, and as I was writing the melody, I was writing the lyrics down as well. I moved things around a little bit here and there, but I wanted it to be lyrically right as well \u2013 the whole album.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recording sessions for Old Habits Die Hard<\/em> took place at the Rock \u2019N\u2019 Roll Fantasy Camp in Las Vegas, Nevada, which is run by David Fishof. \u201cThe Fantasy Camp has those week long things, and so they have the counsellors of course,\u201d the musician tells. \u201cI\u2019ve done a lot of that stuff. I\u2019ve worked with Joe Vitale and Alan White (drums, Yes) and Jeff Beck (guitars, Jeff Beck Group \/ ex-The Yardbirds), and along with that, Vinny Appice (drums, ex-Black Sabbath), Rudy Sarzo (bass, ex-Ozzy Osbourne \/ Quiet Riot) \u2013 all of those guys. You have your own campers, though. There would be myself, or Rudy, or Vinny. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you have usually is, we would have our own room. We would each have five guys; a guitar player, a bass player, a drummer, and maybe another guitar player, or a keyboard player. When you learn the songs, you learn different songs \u2013 whoever\u2019s gonna be there. That can be whether it\u2019s like the last one they did, which was the Judas Priest thing. You would learn a Judas Priest song, but they also get to record one song. When they went to record it, Paul Crook was doing the recording for them. He was all set up in that room, so what we did was we ended up using that room \u2013 Paul and I \u2013 for the recording of the album, which made it really very nice for me, very easy for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Paul Crook\u2019s years of experience were advantageous. \u201cPaul\u2019s been the musical director for Meat Loaf now for a while, so I think he\u2019s probably used to working with different people and adapting to their style,\u201d Frank analyses. \u201cWhen him and I started working together, it was pretty simple \u2013 it was pretty easy. He was always open to suggestion, and I could always bounce things off of him without worrying that he was just gonna say \u2018No, no. Not that\u2019 (laughs). He made it very easy for me. His method I assume at this point would be to make the artist as comfortable as possible, because he did the same thing with my son. When my son (Dylan) went down there to play \u2018Even Now\u2019, the finger-picking on that, he was very nervous. Once he sat down with Paul, Paul made him feel very comfortable. He was able to get right through the song, which was great. I think it\u2019s important when you\u2019re working with someone in the studio, to have that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The wordsmith had approached his son to guest on \u2018Even Now\u2019. \u201cHe\u2019s 20-years-old, so I asked him \u2018Would you like to play on the album?,\u2019\u201d he remembers. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t sure about it, but he said \u2018Yeah, I\u2019d like to play.\u2019 He had never done any recording, so I said \u2018Okay. I think the song that I wrote with Barry would be the best song for you to do.\u2019 Barry has stayed here and we\u2019ve written together before in my house here, so Dylan was comfortable with the song. He knew the song. He had heard the song before, so I just told him to learn it. <\/p>\n

\u201cI told him that I wanted him to finger-pick it, because we were doing a little bit different kind of version of it. I said \u2018Once you get down to the studio, you have to have that song down. I don\u2019t want you to waste any time there, because once you\u2019re in the studio, time is money. People start getting a little bit uptight when it\u2019s not getting done, so you can\u2019t learn it down there. You\u2019ve gotta learn it here.\u2019 He wasn\u2019t nervous until we got into the studio. Once we got into the studio and then Paul sat him down, he became calm again (laughs).\u201d<\/p>\n

Dylan\u2019s guitar proficiency is increasing over time. \u201cHe plays keyboards, he plays piano, and guitar,\u201d Frank divulges. \u201cI have a music room up here, because I have students. It\u2019s where I write as well, so I have a little recording desk. If I\u2019m not in there, he\u2019s in there (laughs), so I have to chase him out at times. He\u2019s got a nice little set-up in his room now, where he\u2019s got a little electric piano and a couple of guitars, so he\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps Dylan will be cutting his own records in years to come. \u201cYeah,\u201d the performer laughs. \u201cThen he\u2019ll be asking me \u2018Would you like to sing on my album, dad (laughs)?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the majority of Old Habits Die Hard<\/em> was recorded at the Rock \u2019N\u2019 Roll Fantasy Camp in Las Vegas, Nevada, guest musicians sent their respective parts in as it were. \u201cJohn Miceli has a drum room in his house where he records, and he\u2019s been doing that for a long time,\u201d Frank discloses. \u201cThe nice thing about the whole thing was I had John, Danny Miranda, and Justin Avery. Those three guys with Paul have been with Meat Loaf for a while, so they\u2019ve played with each other for a while. They\u2019re really tight, so that\u2019s why I wanted to use those guys for doing all of the bed tracks and it was really an easy communication, so yeah. John has a drum room in his house, and he sent the recordings over \u2013 and Danny as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Selecting which guitarists lent parts to Old Habits Die Hard<\/em> was generally a natural process. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a pre-conceived thought before we did it, strangely enough,\u201d the vocalist confirms. \u201cI know that sounds odd, but when we did \u2018Tears Will Fall\u2019, I had said to Paul \u2018I think this song really needs a slide guitar.\u2019 Ken was in the room at the time, and Ken said \u2018Why don\u2019t you get Rickey to play on it?\u2019 Ken\u2019s good friends with Rickey Medlocke (guitarist \/ vocalist), and I know Rickey from when we did some shows with Blackfoot way back in the Angel days. I said \u2018That would be great.\u2019 We called him, but at first he said \u2019I\u2019m not sure if I can do it. I don\u2019t know if I have the time, between the new Blackfoot stuff and the Lynyrd Skynyrd stuff. I don\u2019t know if I have time, but send it to me.\u2019 I sent it to him, and gave my take of what I was looking for and stuff, but it\u2019s basically his solo. When he sent it back, it was perfect, so that\u2019s how that happened, and the same thing with Eddie Ojeda (guitars, Twisted Sister). <\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we were recording that song, Eddie was here for the NAMM convention in LA. He said \u2018I\u2019m coming to Vegas for a couple of days. What\u2019s going on? Anything going on?\u2019 Paul said \u2018Well, I\u2019m recording Frank DiMino\u2019s album right now. Why don\u2019t you come down?\u2019 He came down and listened to it. He said \u2018Do you want me to play on anything?\u2019 I said \u2018I would love to have you play on it.\u2019 We sent him home with it to play and listen to, and then he just came down the next day and threw the solo on. So yeah, it was great. All that stuff just happened really organically for me, so it was nice for it to happen that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Old Habits Die Hard<\/em>\u2019s cover photograph depicts Frank standing alongside hung up boots. \u201cThose are my Angel boots, and that mike stand has been with me since my first Angel tour,\u201d he comments. \u201cI had that made back in \u201975, so that mike stand\u2019s been with me everywhere. I\u2019ve had some back-ups made, but those were stolen and somehow my original one has always been with me. I just thought that that would be a good idea for Old Habits Die Hard<\/em>, for the title. It\u2019s just a little thing in there for some Angel fans to think about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Old habits die hard, as the self-referential title suggests. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what people were gonna expect from me since it was a solo album, so I was just trying to let them know that I still have some of my old habits in there,\u201d the frontman submits. \u201cThey\u2019re still with me (laughs).\u201d<\/p>\n

A music video was filmed for the composition \u2018Rockin\u2019 In The City\u2019. \u201cIt was a fun video to make,\u201d Frank chuckles. \u201cWe did it on top of the Fantasy Camp where we recorded, and the background is the whole back-end of the Strip. It\u2019s the west side of the Strip, so you can see all of the background at night, which is great. Then we just went down the Strip and did some recording down there, and then the other part was I had a lot that was right near the Fantasy Camp. It looked like we were on another planet. There were like concrete slabs everywhere, so it was a great place to record. So yeah, it was a lot of fun doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time of writing, further music videos shoots to promote Old Habits Die Hard<\/em> aren\u2019t scheduled. \u201cNot as of yet,\u201d the singer clarifies.<\/p>\n

In certain quarters, Old Habits Die Hard<\/em> is being touted as a comeback effort for the Angel member. \u201cI don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a comeback album,\u201d Frank debates. \u201cI think it\u2019s just a good solo album by me. Like I said, I\u2019ve done a lot of stuff. I did some stuff while I was out here. I recorded a couple of Christmas albums with Todd Kerns from Slash\u2019s band. He had a local band out here, like I do. His band was called Sin City Sinners, and I did a few things with them. I did a lot of stuff after Angel; I did a lot of stuff with Giorgio Moroder and Keith Forsey, and I did a lot of session stuff. I\u2019ve been doing a lot of those kinds of recordings and stuff, so I\u2019ve always been doing stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps Old Habits Die Hard<\/em> shouldn\u2019t be touted as a comeback album, then? \u201c(Laughs) Well, you can call it a comeback album,\u201d the musician permits. \u201cThat\u2019s fine. I\u2019m fine with that. Yeah, a comeback album by someone who\u2019s already been here for a while I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n

A second solo affair is in the works. \u201cJeff and I have already started writing some stuff, so that\u2019s certainly a plan,\u201d Frank acknowledges. \u201cWe\u2019ll see what happens. That\u2019s one of the plans, to start working on… I want to take this out on the road first, but I\u2019m always open to starting to write. I want to write and get a head start on the next album as well, so it\u2019s good that Jeff and I are already starting to write.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lyricist is hoping to make festival appearances during 2016. \u201cIf I can get on some sooner then that would be great, but right now, I\u2019m looking at next summer for the festivals out in Europe,\u201d he reports. \u201cI have someone that I just talked to put out feelers about what I can do within the next maybe three or four months.\u201d<\/p>\n

Which musicians will round out Frank\u2019s live solo personnel is uncertain. \u201cIt all depends on availability, but I\u2019ll either use the guys from Vinyl Tattoo which played on the video \u2013 which is Oz Fox, Scotty Coogan, and Jay P. Michaels \u2013 or the guys from Meat Loaf, which is Paul Crook, Justin Avery, John Micela, and Danny Miranda,\u201d he ponders. \u201cAnd Jeff LaBansky as well; if Jeff wants him to come out, I\u2019d love for him to come out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Old Habits Die Hard<\/em> was released on July 3rd, 2015 in Europe and subsequently on the 10th in North America, all via Frontiers Music Srl. <\/p>\n

Interview published in July 2015<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DIMINO – Rockin\u2019 In The Cities Anthony Morgan July 2015 Frank DiMino The inaugural solo effort from vocalist Frank DiMino, of Washington D.C., United States-based rock outfit Angel \u2013 July 2015 full-length Old Habits Dies Hard \u2013 was conceived during a dinner conversation with friend Ken Ciancimino. Ciancimino queried with Frank about the possibility of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,3193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-frank-dimino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49863"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49924,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49863\/revisions\/49924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}