{"id":23701,"date":"2020-07-06T13:25:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T17:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23701"},"modified":"2020-07-06T13:26:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T17:26:28","slug":"battle-royale-political-figures-who-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-political-figures-who-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle Royale: Political Figures Who Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wish I had seen this video a couple of days ago, to help me cherish it on the 4th of July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Japan&#039;s Ambassador Kanji Yamanouchi straps on Fender Stratocaster, plays Hendrix for July 4\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sa_1_ME_56U?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Beside Japan&#8217;s Ambassador <strong>Kanji Yamanouchi<\/strong>; <strong>Beto O&#8217;Rourke<\/strong>; and the late, not-lamented, reprehensible White Boy Blooz icon <strong>Lee Atwater<\/strong>, are there any other contenders for Most Rocking Political Figure? Politicians from outside the United States are welcome. Some contenders who immediately come to my mind&#8230;<em>after the jump<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beto O&#039;Rourke with Foss - Live   El Paso, Texas   1994\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xNieIqqKrHs?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Not ready for a name change to &#8220;Beato.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Secretary Kerry Plays Musician&#039;s Guitar for Chinese Vice Premier Liu in Beijing\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hQcYkSrmbHA?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>John &#8220;Classical Gas&#8221; Kerry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mike Huckabee jams on bass guitar\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IfHJ2sLuPNM?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Mike &#8220;Family Man&#8221; Huckabee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bill Clinton playing saxophone on Arsenio Hall Show (HD)\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a_WuGDYawFQ?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Bill &#8220;I Did Not Have Sax With That Woman&#8221; Clinton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<nav class=\"page-links\"><strong>Pages:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-political-figures-who-rock\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">1<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-political-figures-who-rock\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">2<\/span><\/a><\/nav>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I had seen this video a couple of days ago, to help me cherish it on the 4th of July. Beside Japan&#8217;s Ambassador Kanji Yamanouchi; Beto O&#8217;Rourke; and the late, not-lamented, reprehensible White Boy Blooz icon Lee Atwater, are there any other contenders for Most Rocking Political Figure? Politicians from outside the United <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/battle-royale-political-figures-who-rock\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23701"}],"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=23701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}