{"id":2077,"date":"2009-03-24T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T18:11:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-03-24T15:15:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T15:15:22","slug":"i-was-a-fucking-idiot-how-abou-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-was-a-fucking-idiot-how-abou-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I Was a Fucking Idiot &#8212; How About YOU?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A_sY2rjxq6M?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Guys, I&#8217;ll keep this brief. When I was in high school, I had no stomach for any music that involved funk, disco, or any kind of repetitive groove. And I was <em>adamant<\/em> about how bad it was. <strong>James Brown<\/strong> sucked.  <strong>P-Funk<\/strong> was awful.  All forms of &#8220;disco&#8221; were retarded.  In short, I was a fucking idiot.<\/p>\n<p><em>How about you?<\/em>  What were you most wrong about as you grew into the generous, open-minded, brilliant music aficionado you think you are today?<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n<p>p.s.:  I also remember going through a phase in junior high when I sincerely believed <strong>Ted Nugent<\/strong> was a better guitar player than <strong>Jimi Hendrix<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guys, I&#8217;ll keep this brief. When I was in high school, I had no stomach for any music that involved funk, disco, or any kind of repetitive groove. And I was adamant about how bad it was. James Brown sucked. P-Funk was awful. All forms of &#8220;disco&#8221; were retarded. In short, I was a fucking <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-was-a-fucking-idiot-how-abou-you\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077"}],"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=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}