{"id":2720,"date":"2010-04-30T14:08:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T18:08:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-30T15:22:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:22:17","slug":"kings-of-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/kings-of-idol\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings of Idol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just have one question:  what are we to make of the <strong>Kings of Leon<\/strong>&#8216;s transformation from greasy-haired, southern-fried dirt rockers &#8212; i.e., this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/kings-of-leon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/kings-of-leon.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8230; to poncey American Idol contestants; i.e., this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Get-ready-for-V-Festival-video-7303-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Get-ready-for-V-Festival-video-7303-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I mean, really, am I the only person who finds this transformation both weird, and, I dunno, somehow <em>backwards<\/em>? Aren&#8217;t rock stars supposed to start out dressed for success, then let themselves slip into lazy, bongwater-atained hippiedom? What&#8217;s going on here?<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just have one question: what are we to make of the Kings of Leon&#8216;s transformation from greasy-haired, southern-fried dirt rockers &#8212; i.e., this: &#8230; to poncey American Idol contestants; i.e., this: I mean, really, am I the only person who finds this transformation both weird, and, I dunno, somehow backwards? Aren&#8217;t rock stars supposed <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/kings-of-idol\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[257,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}