{"id":15157,"date":"2012-08-22T15:58:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T19:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=15157"},"modified":"2012-08-22T15:58:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T19:58:13","slug":"dark-time-indeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/dark-time-indeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Time Indeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15161\" title=\"rock-is-dead\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rock-is-dead-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rock-is-dead-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rock-is-dead-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/rock-is-dead.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the way to the Phils game last night (don&#8217;t get me started) we were listening to the classic rock channel.  My wife turned to me and said &#8220;Rock is dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although I nodded silently, it struck me how heavy and huge a pronouncement this was.  And, I&#8217;m sad to say, pretty true.<\/p>\n<p>I know I&#8217;m out of it, but I do try to keep up with a lot of music the youngin&#8217;s are listening to these days\u2014mostly through my own kids.  They&#8217;re pretty much up on a lot of stuff\u2014but nothing is what I&#8217;d call Rock with a capital R.<\/p>\n<p>I know it&#8217;s a broad term\u2014and there are some throwback bands doing all sorts of rock derivatives.  I, for instance, like what small amount I&#8217;ve heard from <strong>The Hentchmen<\/strong>\u2014but they are throwback garage rock.<\/p>\n<p>No, what I&#8217;m talking about is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/the-power-and-glory-of-rock\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Power-and-Glory Rock<\/strong><\/a>.  Anyone (besides some stuff I&#8217;ve heard from <strong>Jack White<\/strong>) doing this sorta thing nowadays?<\/p>\n<p>Or is my wife correct? Is  Rock dead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the way to the Phils game last night (don&#8217;t get me started) we were listening to the classic rock channel. My wife turned to me and said &#8220;Rock is dead.&#8221; Although I nodded silently, it struck me how heavy and huge a pronouncement this was. And, I&#8217;m sad to say, pretty true. I know <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/dark-time-indeed\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[261,170,91],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15157"}],"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\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}