{"id":6179,"date":"2016-03-13T19:12:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T02:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=6179"},"modified":"2016-03-13T19:13:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T02:13:51","slug":"the-17-year-locust-tour-by-the-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/the-17-year-locust-tour-by-the-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"The 17-Year Locust Tour by The Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I buy things just because they&#8217;re cicada related. <\/p>\n<p>Here is my latest purchase:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/agency.jpg\" alt=\"The Agency\" width=\"640\" height=\"501\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/agency.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/agency-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week I bought <strong>The 17-Year Locust Tour<\/strong> by the band The Agency. It was recorded in Leetown, West Virginia, and copyrighted in 1993. Periodical cicadas are known as &#8220;17-Year Locusts&#8221; in the U.S., which is where this band got the name for the album. My guess is the album title was inspired by the Brood XIV emergence of 1991. <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t yet listened to the album from start to finish but it falls into the hard rock genre.<\/p>\n<p>The artwork is very nice and was done by bassist and singer Paul Sager using Corel Draw. I used Corel Draw to create the <a href=\"\/cicadas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/originalcicadamania.gif\">first Cicada Mania logo<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I buy things just because they&#8217;re cicada related. Here is my latest purchase: This week I bought The 17-Year Locust Tour by the band The Agency. It was recorded in Leetown, West Virginia, and copyrighted in 1993. Periodical cicadas are known as &#8220;17-Year Locusts&#8221; in the U.S., which is where this band got the name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}