{"id":1828,"date":"2008-11-27T23:13:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T04:13:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-11-27T23:14:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T23:14:14","slug":"free-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/free-pass\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dWC2-MFwWr8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI\u2019ve heard of couples who have agreed to give each other a free pass in the unlikely event he has the opportunity to boink, say, <strong>Angelina Jolie<\/strong>, or she gets picked up by <strong>George Clooney<\/strong> in a bar.  As a sad indicator of my rock nerdiness, I realized the other day that my wife and I do not have such agreement, but that she did say that I could quit my job temporarily and go on tour if <strong>Paul Westerberg<\/strong> ever called looking for a guitarist.  <\/p>\n<p>So, in an effort to separate the real rock nerds from the guys who were just into this because of some vague (and misguided) notion that it might get them laid, the question is this:<\/p>\n<p><big><em>Would you opt for a one-night stand with a celebrity or a chance to sit in with a musical hero?  In either case, who would it be?<\/em><\/big><\/p>\n<p>A few rules: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It must be a realistic, however farfetched, option, so you can\u2019t sit in with Joe Strummer or hook up with Grace Kelly.<\/li>\n<li>No doubling up (ie, touring with the Bangles in hopes that you\u2019ll get a shot at Susanna Hoffs).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve heard of couples who have agreed to give each other a free pass in the unlikely event he has the opportunity to boink, say, Angelina Jolie, or she gets picked up by George Clooney in a bar. As a sad indicator of my rock nerdiness, I realized the other day that my wife and <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/free-pass\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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\/1828"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}