{"id":1697,"date":"2008-09-22T11:47:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T15:47:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-22T13:40:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T13:40:33","slug":"altered-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/altered-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Altered States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small><em>The following video is not exactly safe for work.<\/em><\/small><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LTqFXfn3kdo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nClose watchers of the occasional function of the RTH Poll had to know this one was coming. The poll question I&#8217;m referring to will change soon enough, but here&#8217;s your chance to specify the <strong>album or artist<\/strong> you did or did not hear in a new and improved way depending on how you answered the following statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have been convinced that an album I previously did not like was actually great only after hearing it again in an altered state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve had an <strong>altered state conversion<\/strong>, do tell the album or artist. You are not obligated to share details of the altering substance(s), but there are those in the Halls of Rock who desire living vicariously through your tales, so there&#8217;s no need to hold back.<\/p>\n<p>If your exquisite powers of taste withstood the influence of an otherwise altered state, you are similarly encouraged to share <strong>details<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>My apologies in advance for those of you who do not have a stomach for the fictional splattering of fictional multi-eyed ram&#8217;s blood.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>The following video is safe for work but contains potentially disturbing images of mimed jump roping.<\/em><\/small><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2w1N6RTiTpw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following video is not exactly safe for work. Close watchers of the occasional function of the RTH Poll had to know this one was coming. The poll question I&#8217;m referring to will change soon enough, but here&#8217;s your chance to specify the album or artist you did or did not hear in a new <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/altered-states\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697"}],"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=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}