{"id":226,"date":"2007-02-06T22:51:03","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T03:51:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-02-07T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T11:28:00","slug":"does-hair-make-the-heir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/does-hair-make-the-heir\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Hair Make the Heir?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><ins>The thread that will not die! Do your part to keep this thread alive! Then, continue the healing by helping Rock Town Hall bridge The Great Divide!<\/ins><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/jb.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"159\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Sometimes a provocative post in a given day&#8217;s All-Star Jam area needs to be broken out for more focused discussion on the Main Stage. Today we have just such a post. Check out something <strong>Townsman Rick<\/strong> wrote regarding <strong>Prince&#8217;s appearance<\/strong> in the Super Bowl Halftime Extravaganza:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But really, of all the people anywhere near the level of Super Bowl-halftime-eligible, Prince is the closest thing we&#8217;ve got to an heir to James Brown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>I say:<\/strong> What&#8217;s <em>that<\/em> actually mean? I know that musically he&#8217;s learned a lot from JB, but what exactly has Prince added to it? JB was down with The People. Prince has spent most of his career sitting high above The People, high on a <strong><ins>Purple Cloud<\/ins><\/strong>. The rightful heir to JB was <strong>Public Enemy<\/strong>. They made powerful, gritty message music. JB never posed naked with an orchid covering his manhood. <\/p>\n<p>We can agree to disagree, but first I think we need to see what it is we&#8217;re disagreeing about. Then, perhaps, the healing reconcilliation will follow. Please feel free to jump in, Townspeople. We&#8217;re nowhere near closure on this Prince issue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thread that will not die! Do your part to keep this thread alive! Then, continue the healing by helping Rock Town Hall bridge The Great Divide! Sometimes a provocative post in a given day&#8217;s All-Star Jam area needs to be broken out for more focused discussion on the Main Stage. Today we have just <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/does-hair-make-the-heir\/' 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\/226"}],"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=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}