{"id":16586,"date":"2012-11-14T09:57:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T14:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=16586"},"modified":"2012-11-14T12:54:33","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T17:54:33","slug":"rock-boners-for-old-white-folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-boners-for-old-white-folks\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Boners for Old White Folks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/peel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16587\" title=\"peel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/peel-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/peel-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/peel.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a recent discussion of the band <strong>Alabama Shakes<\/strong>, whose <a title=\"Alabama Shakes on Austin City Limits\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/all-star-jam-199#comment-79124\" target=\"_blank\">recent appearance on <em>Austin City Limits<\/em><\/a> surprisingly impressed Townsman Al and yours truly, Townsman Hrrundivbakshi asked a wholly appropriate question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Seriously, why do us old white folks require \u201csecond coming of\u2026\u201d acts to really give us rock boners?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good question. These days, do I only pop a boner for the &#8220;second coming&#8221; of <strong>Farrah Fawcett<\/strong>\u00a0and whatever other actresses turned me on when I was a teenage boy? Of course not! My dick, to keep this discussion regrettably crude, has adapted to the joys of new, good-looking actresses with their own contemporary style. What <em>is<\/em> the deal? Does new music lack tits and ass, or whatever turned us onto music in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>I have no answers, at this point. Let&#8217;s discuss HVB&#8217;s question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent discussion of the band Alabama Shakes, whose recent appearance on Austin City Limits surprisingly impressed Townsman Al and yours truly, Townsman Hrrundivbakshi asked a wholly appropriate question: Seriously, why do us old white folks require \u201csecond coming of\u2026\u201d acts to really give us rock boners? It&#8217;s a good question. These days, do <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-boners-for-old-white-folks\/' 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":[751,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586"}],"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=16586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}