{"id":16930,"date":"2012-12-20T23:43:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T04:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=16930"},"modified":"2012-12-21T07:04:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T12:04:41","slug":"rth-confessional-what-its-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-confessional-what-its-all-about\/","title":{"rendered":"RTH Confessional: What It&#8217;s <em>All<\/em> About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jug1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16932\" title=\"Young Man Drinking from Bottle in the Nude\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jug1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jug1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jug1-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If the Mayans were right and <strong>Friday, December 21, 2012<\/strong> marks the end of the world, we should be safe in using our remaining hours to lay down what it&#8217;s <em>all<\/em> about. I&#8217;m talking about partying. At rock concerts. Here&#8217;s your chance to share a memorable tale (or two) of your most rockin&#8217; wasted time at a concert.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The first one that comes to mind for me started with an 8-inch Thai stick spliff smoked on the car ride to Philadelphia&#8217;s historic Academy of Music to see an early &#8217;80s, full-tilt boogie version of <strong>The Temptations<\/strong>, featuring a reunited David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks. There was maybe a month-long period when we were scoring Thai stick. It was AWESOME. Much wisdom came from that stuff as our band first got its shit together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We entered the majestic Academy of Music, squirmed through a warm-up comedian, and then had our minds blown as The white tux-donned Temps descended a glass staircase and took their place at that amazing multi-prong mic stand. Cloud nine indeed! It goes without saying that stoned 20-year-old dorks that we were we felt EXTRA-COOL for being the youngest, whitest people in attendance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Man, that was a legendary show and a legendary high. Even Ruffin replacement Dennis Edwards stumbled on stage and reunited with the band for a song or two. He had a buzz on that went far beyond the joys of Thai stick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That night helped me understand what it&#8217;s <em>all<\/em> about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Mayans were right and Friday, December 21, 2012 marks the end of the world, we should be safe in using our remaining hours to lay down what it&#8217;s all about. I&#8217;m talking about partying. At rock concerts. Here&#8217;s your chance to share a memorable tale (or two) of your most rockin&#8217; wasted time <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-confessional-what-its-all-about\/' 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":[362,247,155,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16930"}],"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=16930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}