{"id":31103,"date":"2024-12-24T18:02:29","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T18:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-24-1988-poison-landed-their-only-1-song-with-every-rose-has-its-thorn\/"},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:02:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T18:02:29","slug":"on-this-day-dec-24-1988-poison-landed-their-only-1-song-with-every-rose-has-its-thorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-24-1988-poison-landed-their-only-1-song-with-every-rose-has-its-thorn\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Dec. 24, 1988: Poison landed their only #1 song with \u2018Every Rose Has Its Thorn\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-23\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Dec. 24, 1988 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Glam rockers <strong>Poison<\/strong> landed their first and only #1 song with the power ballad \u201cEvery Rose Has Its Thorn.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The song, from the band\u2019s sophomore album,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Open Up and Say \u2026 Ah!,<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0spent three weeks on top of the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> Hot 100 and was #3 on the <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> year-end charts that year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The band\u2019s frontman, <strong>Bret Michaels<\/strong>, shared in an interview\u00a0for VH1\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Behind the Music<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> that the song was inspired by a cheating girlfriend. He said he wrote it after he called her while at the laundromat and heard a male voice in the background.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Dec. 24, 1988 &#8230; Glam rockers Poison landed their first and only #1 song with the power ballad \u201cEvery Rose Has Its Thorn.\u201d\u00a0 The song, from the band\u2019s sophomore album,\u00a0Open Up and Say \u2026 Ah!,\u00a0spent three weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100 and was #3<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-24-1988-poison-landed-their-only-1-song-with-every-rose-has-its-thorn\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}