{"id":1556,"date":"2008-07-11T20:28:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T00:28:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-07-11T20:28:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T20:28:24","slug":"definition-needed-the-dreaded-bat-wing-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/definition-needed-the-dreaded-bat-wing-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Definition Needed:  &#8220;the Dreaded Bat Wing Syndrome&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/thin-lizzy.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"299\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Folks, earlier today, a woman friend &#8212; a married one, at that &#8212; forwarded me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Balla-Powder-Scented-Scrotum-3-5oz\/dp\/B000EMDCLS\">this link<\/a>, asking if she ought to feel bad for not knowing what the heck a &#8220;bat wing syndrome&#8221; was.  I assured her that I, too, was clueless, despite the fact that I am in fact a man, with a scrotum.  I turn to the Hall for answers.  Note that I have no interest in understanding what it means as it pertains to itchy, smelly nut-satchels.  I&#8217;m more curious to know what it may describe in the world of Rock.   Does it describe, perhaps, the way a guitarist might hold his arms out at his sides after delivering a particularly crushing power chord?  A bassist&#8217;s penchant for pointy guitars?  What?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks, earlier today, a woman friend &#8212; a married one, at that &#8212; forwarded me this link, asking if she ought to feel bad for not knowing what the heck a &#8220;bat wing syndrome&#8221; was. I assured her that I, too, was clueless, despite the fact that I am in fact a man, with a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/definition-needed-the-dreaded-bat-wing-s\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556"}],"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=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}