{"id":18823,"date":"2013-05-15T17:17:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T21:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=18823"},"modified":"2013-05-16T07:39:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T11:39:35","slug":"should-i-try-to-like-genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/should-i-try-to-like-genesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I Try to Like Genesis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I gotta hit and run here, people &#8212; seriously, my time is not my own these days. But I do have a question: should I try to like <strong>Genesis<\/strong> more?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not a snarky question. <strong>Sgt Peppermint Petty<\/strong> suggested I might be able to appreciate Genesis \u2014 more than I like <strong>Yes<\/strong>, for example. We got to rappin&#8217; about Yes versus Genesis, and things got deep. I heard about penetrating vocals, ringing bass tones, jazz chops and, yes, polished golden orbs. It all sounded kinda mystical to me. I think the Sarge had been hitting the ol&#8217; skull bong in the men&#8217;s room or something.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, he&#8217;s a good egg, and I know he meant well. Who knows, he might be right. I might be able to grant Genesis a prog hall pass. When I was 14, I used to like <strong>Emerson, Lake &amp; Palmer<\/strong> \u2014 and I used to dig my old man&#8217;s copy of <em>Lark&#8217;s Tongues In Aspic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So my question is two fold: to those of you who know me \u2014 am I capable of liking Genesis? And to the rest of you, and all those who think I might grow to like them, I ask sincerely: where should I start trying? Oh, and one more question: does the fact that I really like this Genesis song set me up for Genesis disappointment?<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D8WGnxBBgeI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I gotta hit and run here, people &#8212; seriously, my time is not my own these days. But I do have a question: should I try to like Genesis more? That&#8217;s not a snarky question. Sgt Peppermint Petty suggested I might be able to appreciate Genesis \u2014 more than I like Yes, for example. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/should-i-try-to-like-genesis\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[319,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18823"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}