{"id":17345,"date":"2013-02-04T13:30:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T18:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17345"},"modified":"2013-02-04T13:34:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T18:34:32","slug":"worn-down-by-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/worn-down-by-greatness\/","title":{"rendered":"Worn Down by Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17346\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kobe_bryant_perfection.jpeg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17346\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-17346 \" alt=\"kobe_bryant_perfection\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kobe_bryant_perfection-269x300.jpeg\" width=\"269\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kobe_bryant_perfection-269x300.jpeg 269w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/kobe_bryant_perfection.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17346\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still hate the face, but now find myself rooting for Kobe, especially when he&#8217;s up against youngblood pretenders, like LeBron.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During the <a title=\"Super Bowl Goes Lights Out!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/your-space-for-commentary-on-the-least-rocking-super-bowl-entertainment-package-ever\" target=\"_blank\">Super Bowl power outage<\/a> <strong>Townsman Chickenfrank<\/strong> and I touched on the fantastic comeback season enjoyed by <strong>Peyton Manning<\/strong>. Over the years we both came around on that guy. For years we rooted against the Manning Dynasty hype, Peyton&#8217;s old-school Look, and his animated audibles at the line of scrimmage. Finally, we were worn down by his greatness. Chicken cited <strong>Kobe Bryant<\/strong> as another example of an athlete whose greatness over time outweighed our initial, highly negative perceptions in the face of all statistical evidence to the contrary.<\/p>\n<p><em>Is there a rock artist whose greatness wore you down?<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17353\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/led-zeppelin-fans.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17353\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17353\" alt=\"Only Led Zeppelin's musical greatness could eventually wear down my resistance to all a shot like this suggests.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/led-zeppelin-fans-300x211.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/led-zeppelin-fans-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/led-zeppelin-fans.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Only Led Zeppelin&#8217;s musical greatness could eventually wear down my resistance to all a shot like this suggests.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Led Zeppelin<\/strong> was a Peyton Manning or Kobe Bryant for me. There came a point when the power of their records moved me past the hype, past the idiots who&#8217;d glorified them since my high school days, past the dumb lyrics&#8230; I was worn down by greatness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Super Bowl power outage Townsman Chickenfrank and I touched on the fantastic comeback season enjoyed by Peyton Manning. Over the years we both came around on that guy. For years we rooted against the Manning Dynasty hype, Peyton&#8217;s old-school Look, and his animated audibles at the line of scrimmage. Finally, we were worn <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/worn-down-by-greatness\/' 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":[510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17345"}],"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=17345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}