{"id":17141,"date":"2013-01-12T22:26:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T03:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17141"},"modified":"2013-01-12T22:26:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T03:26:41","slug":"if-today-is-your-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/if-today-is-your-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"If Today Is Your Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have heard, today is <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Rock Town Ha<\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">ll<\/span><\/strong>&#8216;s birthday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dfc-Yn43Qeg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafeastrology.com\/birthday\/iftodayisyourbirthday.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cafe Astrology<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>If You Were Born Today,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>January 12<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>You have a strong character with a contrary streak, but overall, you are charming and intriguing. While responsible and basically security-minded, you can also be quirky and rebellious. You are very partnership-oriented, always in mind that things are better shared, even the smallest things and simplest of activities. It is not that you are dependent exactly&#8211;in fact, you have a decidedly independent streak&#8211;it&#8217;s more that you truly enjoy good company.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafeastrology.com\/birthday\/january12_2013.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about <strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">RTH<\/span><\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;year ahead&#8221; here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The sorta odd thing is, that description above is pretty accurate. \u00a0Meanwhile&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A half-assed look around for what rocktsters share a birthday with <span style=\"color: #800080;\">RTH\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I found:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nMelanie Chisholm (Spice Girls)<br \/>\nRaekwon (Wu-Tang Clan)<br \/>\nChris Bell (Big Star)<br \/>\nRob Zombie (White Zombie)<br \/>\nCharlie Gillingham (Counting Crows)<br \/>\nPer Gessle (Roxette)<br \/>\nCynthia Robinson (Sly &amp; The Family Stone)<br \/>\nWilliam Lee Gordon (Oak Ridge Boys)<br \/>\nZach de la Rocha (Rage Against The Machine)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non rocksters include:<\/strong><br \/>\nKirstie Alley<br \/>\nHoward Stern<br \/>\nJoe Frazier<br \/>\nJack London<br \/>\nRush Limbaugh<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not thrilled with what I found honestly. \u00a0If I was ranking these as the most-to-least accurate, I&#8217;d put Chris Bell at the top and Rush Limbaugh at the bottom. \u00a0So says I. \u00a0What say you? \u00a0Or better yet can you find any others that are better or worse than these?<\/p>\n<p>Better better yet, what rocksters or non-rocksters do you share a birthday with? \u00a0Which are you most proud of and which are you not?<\/p>\n<p>I was born on February 28. \u00a0I have yet to find anyone with that birthday that I can identify with or\u00a0<em>hate<\/em> for that matter. \u00a0The closest I can get, best<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">|<\/span><\/strong>worst are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17145\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17145\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17145\" title=\"BrianJones-GilbertGottfried\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BrianJones-GilbertGottfried.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"185\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The first, and likely last, time images of these two appear side-by-side.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It pains me that Robyn Hitchcock&#8217;s birthday is close on March 3 and George Harrison&#8217;s close on February 25. \u00a0But still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Happy Birthday RTH!<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have heard, today is Rock Town Hall&#8216;s birthday. According to Cafe Astrology If You Were Born Today,\u00a0January 12 You have a strong character with a contrary streak, but overall, you are charming and intriguing. While responsible and basically security-minded, you can also be quirky and rebellious. You are very partnership-oriented, always in <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/if-today-is-your-birthday\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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\/17141"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}