{"id":19142,"date":"2013-06-10T15:56:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T19:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=19142"},"modified":"2013-06-10T15:58:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T19:58:50","slug":"the-oldest-story-in-the-book-of-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-oldest-story-in-the-book-of-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oldest Story in the Book of Rock?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19143\" style=\"width: 379px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mickkeefoldest.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19143\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-19143 \" alt=\"Let's stick together.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mickkeefoldest.jpg\" width=\"369\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mickkeefoldest.jpg 369w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/mickkeefoldest-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 369px) 100vw, 369px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Let&#8217;s stick together.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A recent <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> feature on <strong>The Rolling Stones<\/strong> featured the 8,456,201st telling of what may be the oldest story in the book of rock: the <em>rapprochement<\/em> of the Glimmer Twins, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. In my rock magazine-reading lifetime, these articles date back to the release of <em>Some Girls<\/em>. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if this story extends back a few album releases\/tours earlier.\u00a0The reasons for the divide shift slightly from personal\/artistic- to personal\/business-rooted interests as the years pass, but the narrative always drives at the same conclusions: Divided, the Stones give us the New Barbarians\/X-Pensive Winos and Mick Jagger solo albums; united, the treat us to another greatest hits package, a world tour, and whatever new dirt can be scraped from surviving band members&#8217; yellowing fingernails. For this, we give thanks and praise.<\/p>\n<p>Is there an older, more frequently told story in rock than the <em>rapprochement<\/em> of Keef and Mick, and all the <em>mixed emotions<\/em> their union represents to rock&#8217;s core values?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Rolling Stone feature on The Rolling Stones featured the 8,456,201st telling of what may be the oldest story in the book of rock: the rapprochement of the Glimmer Twins, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. In my rock magazine-reading lifetime, these articles date back to the release of Some Girls. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-oldest-story-in-the-book-of-rock\/' 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":[133,165,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19142"}],"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=19142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}