{"id":2547,"date":"2010-02-08T12:05:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T17:05:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-08T12:05:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T12:05:04","slug":"the-most-disappointing-sibling-in-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-most-disappointing-sibling-in-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Disappointing Sibling in Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pSu9AjAwJLI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nIs there any rock sibling more disappointing than <strong>38 Special<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Donnie Van Zandt<\/strong>? Has any rock sibling brought more shame to his or her family &#8211; not to mention an entire region of the United States &#8211; than the brother of Southern Rock&#8217;s leading light, <strong>Ronnie Van Zandt<\/strong>? Think about the pride and identity Ronnie brought to his people, and then think about Donnie&#8217;s role as leader of a band that the members of <strong>REO Speedwagon<\/strong> thought were wimpy. I doubt Donnie got to sit anywhere near Papa Van Zandt at family gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>All these years I thought Donnie was the same younger Van Zandt who&#8217;s filled in on tours by the surviving members of <strong>Lynyrd Skynyrd<\/strong>, but he&#8217;s not! I just learned that that&#8217;s another kid brother, <strong>Johnny<\/strong>. So Donnie doesn&#8217;t even have that redeeming quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there any rock sibling more disappointing than 38 Special&#8216;s Donnie Van Zandt? Has any rock sibling brought more shame to his or her family &#8211; not to mention an entire region of the United States &#8211; than the brother of Southern Rock&#8217;s leading light, Ronnie Van Zandt? Think about the pride and identity Ronnie <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-most-disappointing-sibling-in-rock\/' 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\/2547"}],"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=2547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}