{"id":900,"date":"2026-04-08T13:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/?p=900"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:40:12","slug":"happy-rex-manning-day-from-empire-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/?p=900","title":{"rendered":"Happy Rex Manning Day, From Empire Records!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled.png\" rel=\"lightbox[900]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled-682x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled-682x1024.png 682w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled-768x1154.png 768w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled-1022x1536.png 1022w, https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled.png 1065w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The Rocklopedia Fakebandica, your premiere (and only) podcast about fictional bands and singers, this week discusses the 1995 cult classic film <em>Empire Records<\/em>, where has-been singer Rex Manning makes an in-store appearance at the title record store, Empire Records.<\/p>\n<p>We also talk about the book, film, and TV versions of Nick Hornby&#8217;s <em>High Fidelity<\/em> too!<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/5sCbir8a8ZRUM4EpvKXlFA\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/its-rex-manning-day\/id1738865725?i=1000759472854\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everything <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/rocklopedia\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">else<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rocklopedia Fakebandica, your premiere (and only) podcast about fictional bands and singers, this week discusses the 1995 cult classic film Empire Records, where has-been singer Rex Manning makes an in-store appearance at the title record store, Empire Records. We also talk about the book, film, and TV versions of Nick Hornby&#8217;s High Fidelity too! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paCRfe-ew","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgg.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}