{"id":574,"date":"2011-09-24T12:33:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T12:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2011\/09\/its_the_end_of_rem_as_we_know\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T09:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:57:11","slug":"its_the_end_of_rem_as_we_know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2011\/09\/its_the_end_of_rem_as_we_know\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the end of R.E.M. as we know it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"REM-end-of-the-band.jpg\" src=\"\/jeb\/files\/mt\/2011\/REM-end-of-the-band.jpg\" width=\"203\" height=\"264\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/>R.E.M. announced they were dis-banding this week. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2304421\/\">this (pretty good) article<\/a> by Bill Wyman (not the Rolling Stones bassist), he points to the (pretty bad) &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY&amp;ob=av3e\">It&#8217;s the End of the World<\/a>&#8221; music video by R.E.M. I thought it was recently made by some kids, but it is the original. &#8220;What&#8217;s the deal with the portrait?&#8221; I wondered. So I went searching. Here&#8217;s a (pretty good) article about the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20070706001413\/https:\/\/www.onlineathens.com\/rem-hall\/stories\/noahray.shtml\/\">kid in the film<\/a> and its (pretty bad) making.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R.E.M. announced they were dis-banding this week. In this (pretty good) article by Bill Wyman (not the Rolling Stones bassist), he points to the (pretty bad) &#8220;It&#8217;s the End of the World&#8221; music video by R.E.M. I thought it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/2011\/09\/its_the_end_of_rem_as_we_know\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1323,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/1323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/jeb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}