{"id":4210,"date":"2010-11-15T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T20:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2010-11-15T16:02:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T20:02:29","slug":"am-i-a-rock-pervert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/am-i-a-rock-pervert\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I a rock pervert?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3lPaeEPNCFY?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>So, I&#8217;m sitting at work listening to <strong>Tokyo Police Club<\/strong>, who I kinda dig. The reason being, they play super energetic, fun, angular pop-punk, which is kinda my sweet spot. But it brings up a concern I have (or rather a realization) that, after bands get to a certain age, I kinda turn off to them.<\/p>\n<p>This is due to a number of reasons: I think once bands get to a certain age, they understandably mellow and get a larger world view, which, while I respect, I don&#8217;t necessarily want from my rock and roll. Is it that all these young bands churning out three-chord rock and singing about love in a naive way really rock in way that older bands &#8230; <em>can&#8217;t???<\/em> Then, as these same bands age, they just don&#8217;t come to the plate with that kind of energy. I probably wouldn&#8217;t want to have dinner with these young-uns but I respect their youthful musical zeal.<\/p>\n<p>Am I becoming a rock <strong>Roman Polanski<\/strong>? Anyone else feel the same way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m sitting at work listening to Tokyo Police Club, who I kinda dig. The reason being, they play super energetic, fun, angular pop-punk, which is kinda my sweet spot. But it brings up a concern I have (or rather a realization) that, after bands get to a certain age, I kinda turn off to <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/am-i-a-rock-pervert\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[370,371],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210"}],"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\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}