{"id":15384,"date":"2012-09-04T23:47:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T03:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=15384"},"modified":"2012-09-05T13:56:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T17:56:01","slug":"conventional-music-rate-the-democrats-playlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/conventional-music-rate-the-democrats-playlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Conventional Music: Rate the Democrats\u2019 Playlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rc4_ZGS8m7A?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I had to spend 2 hours tonight sitting through a yearly league meeting for coaches in the youth soccer league in which I coach. As always, it was hell. As always, it was a 150-(mostly) man example of the fact that a good deal of kids don&#8217;t so much grow into adults rather than grow into oversized kids. One coach brought up the pettiest complaint of the night, saying that his club&#8217;s field does not have enough sideline room to allow the coaches to stay a minimum 6 feet from the playing field. He took the most pindick attitude I&#8217;ve witnessed in a good 35 years (&#8220;pindick&#8221; being a term I haven&#8217;t thought to utter in that same span), ending his whine by staring straight ahead, without blinking, and asking the league&#8217;s board of stressed-out volunteers, &#8220;So what are you gonna do?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Give you a wedgie,&#8221; I muttered from a few rows away, loud enough for my club&#8217;s fellow coaches to hear.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, my newfound perspective on maturing is evident when I look in my own mirrors.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully I got home just in time to watch the one bit of the Democratic National Convention that I&#8217;d hoped to catch: <strong>Michelle Obama<\/strong>&#8216;s speech. Without delving into my half-assed political views, I&#8217;ll simply say that Michelle blew me away. Has anyone ever spoke so freely about love from the podium of a party&#8217;s national convention? It was like Woodstock in there.<\/p>\n<p>Musically, I got a charge out of hearing her walk out to <strong>Stevie Wonder<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Signed, Sealed, Delivered.&#8221; We&#8217;re a music blog. As we did for the Republicans, it&#8217;s important we keep a keen eye on the musical proceedings at the Democrats&#8217; convention. What other musical moments did I miss? What&#8217;s coming in the next couple of days? I&#8217;m going to need your help, because there&#8217;s only so much of these pep rallies I can handle. Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to spend 2 hours tonight sitting through a yearly league meeting for coaches in the youth soccer league in which I coach. As always, it was hell. As always, it was a 150-(mostly) man example of the fact that a good deal of kids don&#8217;t so much grow into adults rather than grow <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/conventional-music-rate-the-democrats-playlist\/' 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":[56,577,195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15384"}],"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=15384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}