{"id":1991,"date":"2009-02-04T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-02-05T00:34:30","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T00:34:30","slug":"career-opportunities-the-ones-that-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/career-opportunities-the-ones-that-never\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Opportunities &#8212; the Ones That Never Knocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SGPmnsO8z8k?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Ah, the path never taken.  I was pondering this notion of the career arc that *might have been* had it not been for the untimely death of (insert iconic rock artist here), and ended up pondering something else completely.  Forget the notion of what might have been had these artists&#8217; passing not come too early.  Let&#8217;s imagine what these artists&#8217; careers might have looked like had they never played music in the first place!  <\/p>\n<p>Please scan the following list of artists and imagine what professional path would have suited their skill set best had they not heard the siren call of music:<\/p>\n<p>1.  David Lee Roth<br \/>\n2.  Keith Richards<br \/>\n3.  Sly Stone<br \/>\n4.  Paul McCartney<br \/>\n5.  Buddy Holly<br \/>\n6.  Freddie Mercury<br \/>\n7.  Stevie Wonder<br \/>\n8.  Prince<br \/>\n9.  Lemmy<br \/>\n10.  Bob Seger<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the path never taken. I was pondering this notion of the career arc that *might have been* had it not been for the untimely death of (insert iconic rock artist here), and ended up pondering something else completely. Forget the notion of what might have been had these artists&#8217; passing not come too early. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/career-opportunities-the-ones-that-never\/' 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":[125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991"}],"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=1991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}