{"id":20182,"date":"2013-10-04T11:38:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T15:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=20182"},"modified":"2013-10-07T11:51:40","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T15:51:40","slug":"nugent-nugget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/nugent-nugget\/","title":{"rendered":"Nugent Nugget: Help Me Decide Whether It&#8217;s Right to Take a <em>Journey to the Center of the Mind<\/em>, Perhaps Literally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/amboy_dukes_journey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20186\" alt=\"amboy_dukes_journey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/amboy_dukes_journey.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/amboy_dukes_journey.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/amboy_dukes_journey-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/amboy_dukes_journey-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/amboy_dukes_journey-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/amboy_dukes_journey-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/amboy_dukes_journey-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/amboy_dukes_journey-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve been going through another <em>Nuggets<\/em> binge. I&#8217;ve always dug the <strong>Amboy Dukes<\/strong> and would love to buy <em>Journey to the Center of the Mind<\/em>, but I&#8217;m conflicted. I really, really hate almost everything about <strong>Ted Nugent<\/strong> and what he stands for politically, socially, and musically<\/p>\n<p>Should I put all my prejudices away for the sake of the music? I like <strong>Woody Allen<\/strong>, for instance, but feel skeevy about his personal marriage, yet I still watch his films. Am I a hypocrite? Would it be better to &#8220;steal&#8221; the album off the web so I don&#8217;t have to put a dime in Nugent&#8217;s pocket? Or is that a blurry line I don&#8217;t want to cross?<\/p>\n<p>Or does the album not live up to the 2 to 3 great Amboy Dukes songs I&#8217;ve heard?<\/p>\n<p>Help me, friends of the Hall?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been going through another Nuggets binge. I&#8217;ve always dug the Amboy Dukes and would love to buy Journey to the Center of the Mind, but I&#8217;m conflicted. I really, really hate almost everything about Ted Nugent and what he stands for politically, socially, and musically Should I put all my prejudices away for <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/nugent-nugget\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[512,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20182"}],"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\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}