{"id":16473,"date":"2012-11-04T18:13:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T23:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=16473"},"modified":"2012-11-04T18:48:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T23:48:14","slug":"mike-love-apologists-its-time-for-some-heavy-lifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mike-love-apologists-its-time-for-some-heavy-lifting\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Love Apologists, It&#8217;s Time for Some Heavy Lifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16478\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16478\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16478\" title=\"38123921318501177048479\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/38123921318501177048479.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/38123921318501177048479.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/38123921318501177048479-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/38123921318501177048479-300x300.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking at neighbors masturbating, with love<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/01-Rockin-the-Man-In-the-Boat1.mp3\">Rockin&#8217; the Man In the Boat<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad so many of my brethren in Rock are finally getting over the electricity\/gas\/flooded basement pain that Sandy left in her wake. Having said that: \u00a0suck on this &#8212; <strong>Mike Love<\/strong>&#8216;s tasteful ode to female masturbation, &#8220;Rockin&#8217; the Man In the Boat,&#8221; from his 1980 solo LP, <em>Looking Back With Love<\/em>. The lyrics, as you can imagine, are key to enjoyment of this song. Be sure to hang around for one of the later verses, where Love explains exactly how he knows about the main protagonist&#8217;s, uh, &#8220;habit.&#8221; That particular moment literally caused my wife to shudder with revulsion.<\/p>\n<p>Just wanted to show you fine people that thrifting for vinyl ain&#8217;t always a walk in the park.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockin&#8217; the Man In the Boat I&#8217;m glad so many of my brethren in Rock are finally getting over the electricity\/gas\/flooded basement pain that Sandy left in her wake. Having said that: \u00a0suck on this &#8212; Mike Love&#8216;s tasteful ode to female masturbation, &#8220;Rockin&#8217; the Man In the Boat,&#8221; from his 1980 solo LP, Looking <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mike-love-apologists-its-time-for-some-heavy-lifting\/' 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":[120,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16473"}],"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=16473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}