{"id":23125,"date":"2016-05-30T14:23:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T18:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23125"},"modified":"2016-06-11T17:31:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T21:31:49","slug":"this-is-what-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/this-is-what-you-want\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is What You Want?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23132 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thisiswhatyouwant.jpg\" alt=\"thisiswhatyouwant\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thisiswhatyouwant.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thisiswhatyouwant-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thisiswhatyouwant-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thisiswhatyouwant-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thisiswhatyouwant-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thisiswhatyouwant-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thisiswhatyouwant-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/thisiswhatyouwant-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is this the overwrought rock criticism we aimed to skirt, or did we encourage <a href=\"http:\/\/nyti.ms\/244cGUS\" target=\"_blank\">the following <em>New York Times<\/em> piece by Chuck Klosterman<\/a>?<!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F05%2F29%2Fmagazine%2Fwhich-rock-star-will-historians-of-the-future-remember.html#?secret=YhNk1NRCiE\" data-secret=\"YhNk1NRCiE\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Words:Give a Shit ratio is pathetically low, or high&#8230;I stink at math. What I mean is, once the long Sousa point was established, was all the rest of this piece any more than an extended exercise in some form of economical hipsterism? Why not start with the economically sound and hip opinion that Chuck Berry (or CCR, for a higher risk hip margin of victory) will be the future face of rock? How much of\u00a0the crap I read in the middle had anything\u00a0to do with the author? It was like reading some bogus college curriculum. It felt like it was meant to wear me down with pseudo-scholarly reasoning. This was the kind of topic we would handled with some style and passion and humor, with life. No?<\/p>\n<nav class=\"page-links\"><strong>Pages:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/this-is-what-you-want\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">1<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/this-is-what-you-want\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">2<\/span><\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is this the overwrought rock criticism we aimed to skirt, or did we encourage the following New York Times piece by Chuck Klosterman? Pages: 1 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[231],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23125"}],"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=23125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}