{"id":2251,"date":"2009-07-18T16:10:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T20:10:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-18T17:00:35","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T17:00:35","slug":"rock-aldas-and-grouchos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-aldas-and-grouchos\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Aldas and Grouchos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/alda.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t join any website that would have me as a member&#8230;&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>When I was a kid, the first show I can remember watching with regularity was <em>M.A.S.H.<\/em> <em>M.A.S.H<\/em> was huge in the &#8217;70s and the show&#8217;s biggest star was <strong>Alan Alda<\/strong>, as Hawkeye Pierce, a womanizing anti-establishment wiseacre who lived to deliver a stinging one liner. <\/p>\n<p>In 1977 I didn&#8217;t know what a genius was. But if I did I would have been certain that Alan Alda qualified. A few years on I didn&#8217;t think Alan Alda was a genius any more, in fact I had my suspicions that Alda was even a good actor. The reason? <strong>Groucho Marx<\/strong>. I had caught a Marx Brothers movie late a night and&#8230;.<em>Holy Shit&#8230;Hawkeye Pierce&#8230;stole his whole act from Groucho Marx&#8230;Alan Alda isn&#8217;t a genius, he&#8217;s a fraud!<\/em> Well a few more years went by and I realize this is kinda the way the world works sometimes.I have since made my peace with Alan Alda. He&#8217;s all right in my books. You know what they say about tragedy plus time, right? <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this got me thinking, <em>have you ever been sold on a rock and roll Alan Alda, until you found the rock and roll Groucho Marx?<\/em> Did you make peace with your rockin&#8217; Alda or do you still hold it against him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t join any website that would have me as a member&#8230;&#8221; When I was a kid, the first show I can remember watching with regularity was M.A.S.H. M.A.S.H was huge in the &#8217;70s and the show&#8217;s biggest star was Alan Alda, as Hawkeye Pierce, a womanizing anti-establishment wiseacre who lived to deliver a stinging <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-aldas-and-grouchos\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"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\/2251"}],"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\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}