{"id":2033,"date":"2009-03-03T10:09:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T15:09:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-08T21:30:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T02:30:43","slug":"rth-challenge-name-a-rock-artist-other-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-challenge-name-a-rock-artist-other-t\/","title":{"rendered":"RTH Challenge:  Name a Rock Artist Other Than Nick Cave Who Got Better After Kicking a Nasty Drug Habit"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7kV5XkBQsKU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I was having dinner at a friend&#8217;s house last night, and while playing a friendly game of Mille Bornes (word&#8217;s greatest card game!), <strong>Nick Cave<\/strong>&#8216;s new LP was cued up.  To my surprise, I really liked it.  The last time I&#8217;d seen or heard Nick was back in the late &#8217;80s, when I caught his band playing some local hipster radio showcase.  I thought he sucked.  My friends explained:  that was because he had a nasty drug habit &#8212; but, now that he&#8217;s clean, his music is a whole lot better.  Then one of my friends paused, and said &#8220;come to think of it, Nick Cave may be the <em>only<\/em> rock and roller whose music got better after they got clean.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We gabbed about this for a while, and I have to admit I had a hard time thinking of a counter-argument.  Can you?  Can you name a rock and roll artist whose work got <em>better<\/em> after they kicked a nasty drug habit?<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses,<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was having dinner at a friend&#8217;s house last night, and while playing a friendly game of Mille Bornes (word&#8217;s greatest card game!), Nick Cave&#8216;s new LP was cued up. To my surprise, I really liked it. The last time I&#8217;d seen or heard Nick was back in the late &#8217;80s, when I caught his <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-challenge-name-a-rock-artist-other-t\/' 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":[42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033"}],"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=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}