{"id":13360,"date":"2012-05-04T17:50:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T21:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=13360"},"modified":"2012-05-04T17:50:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T21:50:17","slug":"this-shit-aint-right-beastie-boys-adam-yauch-dead-at-47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/this-shit-aint-right-beastie-boys-adam-yauch-dead-at-47\/","title":{"rendered":"This Shit Ain&#8217;t Right: Beastie Boys&#8217; Adam Yauch Dead at 47"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z5rRZdiu1UE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Wow, as I wrapped up a long day at work on a mighty 2 hours of sleep I just read that <a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/04\/adam-yauch-of-the-beastie-boys-dies\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Adam Yauch<\/strong> of the <strong>Beastie Boys<\/strong> has died from cancer at the age of 47<\/a>. \u00a0This feels sadder to me than most celebrity deaths involving artists I&#8217;m not particularly involved with. To be honest, there&#8217;s a chance I wouldn&#8217;t be able to tell you which Beastie Boy was Yauch if you showed me a picture of the three of them. However, I liked their team spirit, and no member of a team as funny and spirited as the Beastie Boys should have to die like that. I remember reading that Yauch was battling with cancer a couple of years ago, but come on, this was a guy pretty much my age with a lot of energy and a great sense of humor. He&#8217;d laugh his way through cancer and send it scurrying on its way.<\/p>\n<p>It took me awhile to like much in the way of rap music, and to this day I&#8217;m skeptical of the genre, but the Beastie Boys&#8217; appeal was hard to deny. They were in your face and funny, the way a couple of my friends were funny. Even before I liked any of their music I couldn&#8217;t help but like them, if only because they had tapped into a pop culture humor completely specific to my generation. The following fanboy video, in which a group of friends possibly much like my own mates re-creates the band&#8217;s amazing &#8220;Sabotage&#8221; video, says a lot about what made the real McCoys so lovable.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/2044781?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, as I wrapped up a long day at work on a mighty 2 hours of sleep I just read that Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys has died from cancer at the age of 47. \u00a0This feels sadder to me than most celebrity deaths involving artists I&#8217;m not particularly involved with. To be honest, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/this-shit-aint-right-beastie-boys-adam-yauch-dead-at-47\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[626,625,170,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}