{"id":1863,"date":"2008-12-10T17:10:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T22:10:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T20:41:31","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T20:41:31","slug":"last-man-standing-snatching-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-snatching-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I had the <strong>iPod<\/strong> on shuffle the other day when a <strong>Sublime<\/strong> song came on. I don\u2019t particularly like that band but it got me thinking about the odds that they overcame in coming so close to making it in a cutthroat business, only to have the lead singer\/songwriter overdose shortly before their major label debut.  <\/p>\n<p>So, I\u2019m looking for examples of <strong>big blown opportunities<\/strong>. Misguided choices are not enough: the party in question really needs to have shit the bed, even if it was only apparent in hindsight.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll go with <strong>Brad Nowell<\/strong> and Sublime for my first answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the iPod on shuffle the other day when a Sublime song came on. I don\u2019t particularly like that band but it got me thinking about the odds that they overcame in coming so close to making it in a cutthroat business, only to have the lead singer\/songwriter overdose shortly before their major label <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-snatching-defeat\/' 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":[56,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863"}],"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=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}