The \u201980s Are the New \u201960s & \u201970s\u2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\tIf you\u2019re wondering where all the boomer acts are in the Rock Hall\u2019s Class of 2026, you\u2019re a couple months late to the question: Not only were there not any primarily \u201960s or \u201970s acts inducted this year \u2014\u00a0unless you count the Joy Division half of Joy Division\/New Order, which released one of their two studio LPs in 1979 \u2014 there weren\u2019t any nominated. (Billy Idol and Phil Collins both were relevant as recording artists in the \u201970s, but only as frontmen for Generation X and Genesis, respectively, while Iron Maiden were recording as a band, but with a different lead singer \u2014\u00a0Paul Di\u2019Anno \u2014 than the one they became most famous with, Bruce Dickinson.) <\/p>\n
\n\tInstead, we have a surfeit of 1980s acts inducted this year: While most of them continued to have significant success into the \u201990s, Idol, Collins, Maiden, New Order, Sade and Luther Vandross all really hit their commercial and artistic stride in the \u201980s. It seems that after a long period of being treated as not as weighty for rock history as the decades that preceded it, the \u201980s has finally assumed default status as the Rock Hall\u2019s decade of choice for new inductees \u2014 and it will be interested moving forward to see which other \u201980s acts who had not even previously been considered may suddenly find themselves on the inside track to induction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u2026But We\u2019re Not Totally Ready for the \u201990s Yet\u2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\tWhile artists like Jeff Buckley, Melissa Etheridge and Lauryn Hill each fit the Rock Hall profile in different ways, all three were denied entry on their first nomination. Buckley\u2019s and Hill\u2019s respective minimal outputs probably hurt their cases a little, while Etheridge\u2019s relative consistency perhaps makes her easy to take for granted \u2014 but clearly, we\u2019re not at a place yet with the \u201990s where such fitting-but-flawed cases reach the tipping point towards induction, as we may have just entered with the \u201980s.<\/p>\n
\n\tAnd as for the millennial pop icons, forget about it: While P!nk and Shakira both have arguments of their own to be made for eventual Rock Hall induction, both were likely just honored to be nominated this year, as we may be some years away still from the first predominantly 21st century, predominantly pop inductees. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u2026Unless You\u2019re Coming Off a Big, Triumphant Reunion Tour<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThere were two \u201990s-bred artists who did make it past the Rock Hall\u2019s velvet rope this year: Oasis and Wu-Tang Clan. What do they have in common, besides beloved catalogs, timeless cool and perennial combustibility? Both acts got it together in 2025 for extremely well-received reunion tours \u2014 with Oasis\u2019 stadium trek receiving raves (and massive guest-list gets) around the globe, as Wu-Tang\u2019s arena farewell tour brought half of hip-hop history on stage and delighted enough fans that the Wu decided to retract their goodbye and give it another go for 2026. Might not be a foolproof strategy, but clearly, if you\u2019re looking to get over the hump with Rock Hall voters, a well-timed, career-capping live run wouldn\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nR&B, But Not Pop<\/h2>\n\n\n\tIf there\u2019s a takeaway to be had from Mariah Carey\u2019s continued, largely perplexing Rock Hall snubbing, it\u2019s that perhaps the voters still prefer their R&B to be a little less crossover-ready. Which isn\u2019t to say that Luther Vandross and Sade didn\u2019t both have enormous pop hits of their own \u2014 but they perhaps never crossed over quite enough for their pop success to equal or confuse their R&B success. (And at the least, they never went diamond or had double-digit Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s like Carey, whose commercial success at her peak was so overwhelming it felt like she transcended genre.) Does that actually make Vandross or Sade any more \u201crock\u201d than Carey? Not really, but perhaps voters just need to squint a little less hard to view them as such. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nNo Waiting for Women Rap Pioneers to Be Voted In<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe induction of Queen Latifah and MC Lyte as early influences \u2014\u00a0after Salt-n-Pepa\u2019s entrance in 2025 \u2014 suggests that the Rock Hall wants to make sure these bedrock women rappers get in, without waiting for the voters to make it happen. Considering the Rock Hall\u2019s famously shaky history with both women artists and old-school rappers, it makes sense: Lyte and Latifah are undoubtedly pivotal, but they\u2019ve rarely gotten the same level of praise as many of their male peers, so holding out for them to be nominated and then to be inducted would\u2019ve likely made for a lengthy wait. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2240329933-e1776121633253.jpg?w=1024″] The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\u2019s new Class of 2026 was announced on American Idol on Monday night (Apr. 13), and as always, the list of inducted artists \u2014 as well as the list of artists still left on the outside looking in \u2014 makes for a fascinating look at where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1880767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1880767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1880767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1880767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1880767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tIf you\u2019re wondering where all the boomer acts are in the Rock Hall\u2019s Class of 2026, you\u2019re a couple months late to the question: Not only were there not any primarily \u201960s or \u201970s acts inducted this year \u2014\u00a0unless you count the Joy Division half of Joy Division\/New Order, which released one of their two studio LPs in 1979 \u2014 there weren\u2019t any nominated. (Billy Idol and Phil Collins both were relevant as recording artists in the \u201970s, but only as frontmen for Generation X and Genesis, respectively, while Iron Maiden were recording as a band, but with a different lead singer \u2014\u00a0Paul Di\u2019Anno \u2014 than the one they became most famous with, Bruce Dickinson.) <\/p>\n
\n\tInstead, we have a surfeit of 1980s acts inducted this year: While most of them continued to have significant success into the \u201990s, Idol, Collins, Maiden, New Order, Sade and Luther Vandross all really hit their commercial and artistic stride in the \u201980s. It seems that after a long period of being treated as not as weighty for rock history as the decades that preceded it, the \u201980s has finally assumed default status as the Rock Hall\u2019s decade of choice for new inductees \u2014 and it will be interested moving forward to see which other \u201980s acts who had not even previously been considered may suddenly find themselves on the inside track to induction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\u2026But We\u2019re Not Totally Ready for the \u201990s Yet\u2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\tWhile artists like Jeff Buckley, Melissa Etheridge and Lauryn Hill each fit the Rock Hall profile in different ways, all three were denied entry on their first nomination. Buckley\u2019s and Hill\u2019s respective minimal outputs probably hurt their cases a little, while Etheridge\u2019s relative consistency perhaps makes her easy to take for granted \u2014 but clearly, we\u2019re not at a place yet with the \u201990s where such fitting-but-flawed cases reach the tipping point towards induction, as we may have just entered with the \u201980s.<\/p>\n
\n\tAnd as for the millennial pop icons, forget about it: While P!nk and Shakira both have arguments of their own to be made for eventual Rock Hall induction, both were likely just honored to be nominated this year, as we may be some years away still from the first predominantly 21st century, predominantly pop inductees. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\n\u2026Unless You\u2019re Coming Off a Big, Triumphant Reunion Tour<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThere were two \u201990s-bred artists who did make it past the Rock Hall\u2019s velvet rope this year: Oasis and Wu-Tang Clan. What do they have in common, besides beloved catalogs, timeless cool and perennial combustibility? Both acts got it together in 2025 for extremely well-received reunion tours \u2014 with Oasis\u2019 stadium trek receiving raves (and massive guest-list gets) around the globe, as Wu-Tang\u2019s arena farewell tour brought half of hip-hop history on stage and delighted enough fans that the Wu decided to retract their goodbye and give it another go for 2026. Might not be a foolproof strategy, but clearly, if you\u2019re looking to get over the hump with Rock Hall voters, a well-timed, career-capping live run wouldn\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nR&B, But Not Pop<\/h2>\n\n\n\tIf there\u2019s a takeaway to be had from Mariah Carey\u2019s continued, largely perplexing Rock Hall snubbing, it\u2019s that perhaps the voters still prefer their R&B to be a little less crossover-ready. Which isn\u2019t to say that Luther Vandross and Sade didn\u2019t both have enormous pop hits of their own \u2014 but they perhaps never crossed over quite enough for their pop success to equal or confuse their R&B success. (And at the least, they never went diamond or had double-digit Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s like Carey, whose commercial success at her peak was so overwhelming it felt like she transcended genre.) Does that actually make Vandross or Sade any more \u201crock\u201d than Carey? Not really, but perhaps voters just need to squint a little less hard to view them as such. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
- \n
\nNo Waiting for Women Rap Pioneers to Be Voted In<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe induction of Queen Latifah and MC Lyte as early influences \u2014\u00a0after Salt-n-Pepa\u2019s entrance in 2025 \u2014 suggests that the Rock Hall wants to make sure these bedrock women rappers get in, without waiting for the voters to make it happen. Considering the Rock Hall\u2019s famously shaky history with both women artists and old-school rappers, it makes sense: Lyte and Latifah are undoubtedly pivotal, but they\u2019ve rarely gotten the same level of praise as many of their male peers, so holding out for them to be nominated and then to be inducted would\u2019ve likely made for a lengthy wait. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tWhile artists like Jeff Buckley, Melissa Etheridge and Lauryn Hill each fit the Rock Hall profile in different ways, all three were denied entry on their first nomination. Buckley\u2019s and Hill\u2019s respective minimal outputs probably hurt their cases a little, while Etheridge\u2019s relative consistency perhaps makes her easy to take for granted \u2014 but clearly, we\u2019re not at a place yet with the \u201990s where such fitting-but-flawed cases reach the tipping point towards induction, as we may have just entered with the \u201980s.<\/p>\n
\n\tAnd as for the millennial pop icons, forget about it: While P!nk and Shakira both have arguments of their own to be made for eventual Rock Hall induction, both were likely just honored to be nominated this year, as we may be some years away still from the first predominantly 21st century, predominantly pop inductees. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\u2026Unless You\u2019re Coming Off a Big, Triumphant Reunion Tour<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThere were two \u201990s-bred artists who did make it past the Rock Hall\u2019s velvet rope this year: Oasis and Wu-Tang Clan. What do they have in common, besides beloved catalogs, timeless cool and perennial combustibility? Both acts got it together in 2025 for extremely well-received reunion tours \u2014 with Oasis\u2019 stadium trek receiving raves (and massive guest-list gets) around the globe, as Wu-Tang\u2019s arena farewell tour brought half of hip-hop history on stage and delighted enough fans that the Wu decided to retract their goodbye and give it another go for 2026. Might not be a foolproof strategy, but clearly, if you\u2019re looking to get over the hump with Rock Hall voters, a well-timed, career-capping live run wouldn\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nR&B, But Not Pop<\/h2>\n\n\n\tIf there\u2019s a takeaway to be had from Mariah Carey\u2019s continued, largely perplexing Rock Hall snubbing, it\u2019s that perhaps the voters still prefer their R&B to be a little less crossover-ready. Which isn\u2019t to say that Luther Vandross and Sade didn\u2019t both have enormous pop hits of their own \u2014 but they perhaps never crossed over quite enough for their pop success to equal or confuse their R&B success. (And at the least, they never went diamond or had double-digit Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s like Carey, whose commercial success at her peak was so overwhelming it felt like she transcended genre.) Does that actually make Vandross or Sade any more \u201crock\u201d than Carey? Not really, but perhaps voters just need to squint a little less hard to view them as such. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nNo Waiting for Women Rap Pioneers to Be Voted In<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe induction of Queen Latifah and MC Lyte as early influences \u2014\u00a0after Salt-n-Pepa\u2019s entrance in 2025 \u2014 suggests that the Rock Hall wants to make sure these bedrock women rappers get in, without waiting for the voters to make it happen. Considering the Rock Hall\u2019s famously shaky history with both women artists and old-school rappers, it makes sense: Lyte and Latifah are undoubtedly pivotal, but they\u2019ve rarely gotten the same level of praise as many of their male peers, so holding out for them to be nominated and then to be inducted would\u2019ve likely made for a lengthy wait. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tThere were two \u201990s-bred artists who did make it past the Rock Hall\u2019s velvet rope this year: Oasis and Wu-Tang Clan. What do they have in common, besides beloved catalogs, timeless cool and perennial combustibility? Both acts got it together in 2025 for extremely well-received reunion tours \u2014 with Oasis\u2019 stadium trek receiving raves (and massive guest-list gets) around the globe, as Wu-Tang\u2019s arena farewell tour brought half of hip-hop history on stage and delighted enough fans that the Wu decided to retract their goodbye and give it another go for 2026. Might not be a foolproof strategy, but clearly, if you\u2019re looking to get over the hump with Rock Hall voters, a well-timed, career-capping live run wouldn\u2019t hurt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
R&B, But Not Pop<\/h2>\n\n\n\tIf there\u2019s a takeaway to be had from Mariah Carey\u2019s continued, largely perplexing Rock Hall snubbing, it\u2019s that perhaps the voters still prefer their R&B to be a little less crossover-ready. Which isn\u2019t to say that Luther Vandross and Sade didn\u2019t both have enormous pop hits of their own \u2014 but they perhaps never crossed over quite enough for their pop success to equal or confuse their R&B success. (And at the least, they never went diamond or had double-digit Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s like Carey, whose commercial success at her peak was so overwhelming it felt like she transcended genre.) Does that actually make Vandross or Sade any more \u201crock\u201d than Carey? Not really, but perhaps voters just need to squint a little less hard to view them as such. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\nNo Waiting for Women Rap Pioneers to Be Voted In<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe induction of Queen Latifah and MC Lyte as early influences \u2014\u00a0after Salt-n-Pepa\u2019s entrance in 2025 \u2014 suggests that the Rock Hall wants to make sure these bedrock women rappers get in, without waiting for the voters to make it happen. Considering the Rock Hall\u2019s famously shaky history with both women artists and old-school rappers, it makes sense: Lyte and Latifah are undoubtedly pivotal, but they\u2019ve rarely gotten the same level of praise as many of their male peers, so holding out for them to be nominated and then to be inducted would\u2019ve likely made for a lengthy wait. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\n\tIf there\u2019s a takeaway to be had from Mariah Carey\u2019s continued, largely perplexing Rock Hall snubbing, it\u2019s that perhaps the voters still prefer their R&B to be a little less crossover-ready. Which isn\u2019t to say that Luther Vandross and Sade didn\u2019t both have enormous pop hits of their own \u2014 but they perhaps never crossed over quite enough for their pop success to equal or confuse their R&B success. (And at the least, they never went diamond or had double-digit Billboard Hot 100 No. 1s like Carey, whose commercial success at her peak was so overwhelming it felt like she transcended genre.) Does that actually make Vandross or Sade any more \u201crock\u201d than Carey? Not really, but perhaps voters just need to squint a little less hard to view them as such. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
No Waiting for Women Rap Pioneers to Be Voted In<\/h2>\n\n\n\tThe induction of Queen Latifah and MC Lyte as early influences \u2014\u00a0after Salt-n-Pepa\u2019s entrance in 2025 \u2014 suggests that the Rock Hall wants to make sure these bedrock women rappers get in, without waiting for the voters to make it happen. Considering the Rock Hall\u2019s famously shaky history with both women artists and old-school rappers, it makes sense: Lyte and Latifah are undoubtedly pivotal, but they\u2019ve rarely gotten the same level of praise as many of their male peers, so holding out for them to be nominated and then to be inducted would\u2019ve likely made for a lengthy wait. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2240329933-e1776121633253.jpg?w=1024″] The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\u2019s new Class of 2026 was announced on American Idol on Monday night (Apr. 13), and as always, the list of inducted artists \u2014 as well as the list of artists still left on the outside looking in \u2014 makes for a fascinating look at where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1880767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1880767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1880767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1880767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1880767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tThe induction of Queen Latifah and MC Lyte as early influences \u2014\u00a0after Salt-n-Pepa\u2019s entrance in 2025 \u2014 suggests that the Rock Hall wants to make sure these bedrock women rappers get in, without waiting for the voters to make it happen. Considering the Rock Hall\u2019s famously shaky history with both women artists and old-school rappers, it makes sense: Lyte and Latifah are undoubtedly pivotal, but they\u2019ve rarely gotten the same level of praise as many of their male peers, so holding out for them to be nominated and then to be inducted would\u2019ve likely made for a lengthy wait. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2240329933-e1776121633253.jpg?w=1024″] The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame\u2019s new Class of 2026 was announced on American Idol on Monday night (Apr. 13), and as always, the list of inducted artists \u2014 as well as the list of artists still left on the outside looking in \u2014 makes for a fascinating look at where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,226],"class_list":["post-1880767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-billboard-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1880767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1880767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1880767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1880767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}