{"id":22189,"date":"2014-12-22T12:08:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T17:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22189"},"modified":"2014-12-22T12:08:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T17:08:59","slug":"joe-strummer-and-the-comforts-of-commandment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/joe-strummer-and-the-comforts-of-commandment\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Strummer and the Comforts of Commandment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a stubborn, contrarian, authority-resisting teenager it was a joy to find The Clash and Joe Strummer, in particular, who immediately commanded my attention, respect, and, I&#8217;ll admit, idolatry. It was comforting to feel commanded. In my imagination, he was my rock &#8216;n roll big brother: pushing me, patting me on the back, whispering in my ear. He died this day in 2002. I truly regret never getting to sit down with him, but in some ways I felt like I did numerous times.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zoJYM3krDWQ\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a stubborn, contrarian, authority-resisting teenager it was a joy to find The Clash and Joe Strummer, in particular, who immediately commanded my attention, respect, and, I&#8217;ll admit, idolatry. It was comforting to feel commanded. In my imagination, he was my rock &#8216;n roll big brother: pushing me, patting me on the back, whispering in <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/joe-strummer-and-the-comforts-of-commandment\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22189"}],"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=22189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}