{"id":11875,"date":"2012-01-27T08:33:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T13:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=11875"},"modified":"2012-01-27T15:53:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T20:53:43","slug":"last-man-standing-i-want-to-be-a-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-i-want-to-be-a-politician\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: I Want to Be a Politician"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0ArB8_CQX-U?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Inspired by the Hall\u2019s search for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/rock-%E2%80%98n-roll-cabinet\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rock and Roll Cabinet<\/a>, I\u2019m looking for politicians who are mentioned <strong>by name<\/strong> in the title or lyrics of a song.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What counts<\/strong>: actual elected officials, cabinet members, monarchs, dictators, etc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What doesn\u2019t count<\/strong>: album titles, such as <em>Disraeli Gears<\/em>; made up characters, such as the Mayor of Simpleton, the Lizard King, King Everything, etc; and those involved in politics but who don\u2019t hold some official position, such as Lee Atwater (I\u2019m not sure if there are any examples of this last instance but I thought I\u2019d weed it out to be on the safe side).<\/p>\n<p>An individual&#8217;s name may only be used <strong>once<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>As always, please limit your posts to one answer at a time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll start off with \u201cEven <strong>Richard Nixon<\/strong> has got soul\u201d in Neil Young\u2019s &#8220;Campaigner.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the Hall\u2019s search for a Rock and Roll Cabinet, I\u2019m looking for politicians who are mentioned by name in the title or lyrics of a song. What counts: actual elected officials, cabinet members, monarchs, dictators, etc. What doesn\u2019t count: album titles, such as Disraeli Gears; made up characters, such as the Mayor of <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-i-want-to-be-a-politician\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55,577],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}