{"id":1504,"date":"2008-06-23T11:46:34","date_gmt":"2008-06-23T15:46:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-13T16:13:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T16:13:55","slug":"rth-loves-what-you-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-loves-what-you-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"RTH Loves What You Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/dennisdeyoungsf.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"450\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I was out at a baseball game with fellow <strong>Townsman Mockcarr<\/strong> the other day, and, as the beer began to flow, we both decided that things at RTH had gotten a bit contentious.  What we needed, we agreed, was to find common ground &#8212; you know, to find the things we know we can all agree with.  We also realized, however, that attempting to find common ground on things we all <em>liked<\/em> was a fool&#8217;s errand.  That&#8217;s what got us into all this trouble to begin with!  A more likely path to peace and harmony, we thought, was finding unity and one-ness in the things we know we all hate.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gmNbWLFCPtw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><strong>Townsman Kilroy<\/strong> started things off rather nicely by citing the Rolling Stones&#8217; output, post-<em>Tattoo You<\/em>.  I&#8217;m going to suggest <strong>Dennis DeYoung<\/strong>.  Is anybody here willing to stand up for either of these things and claim they&#8217;re not as bad as we think they are?  If not, perhaps you&#8217;d be willing to help promote the healing by finding something else we can all agree to hate &#8212; utterly and completely &#8212; together.<\/p>\n<p>Come on, RTH &#8212; can&#8217;t we all just get along?  <\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out at a baseball game with fellow Townsman Mockcarr the other day, and, as the beer began to flow, we both decided that things at RTH had gotten a bit contentious. What we needed, we agreed, was to find common ground &#8212; you know, to find the things we know we can all <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-loves-what-you-hate\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}