{"id":5810,"date":"2011-02-11T12:55:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=5810"},"modified":"2011-02-11T12:55:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:55:29","slug":"rock-artists-for-whom-sobriety-is-considered-a-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-artists-for-whom-sobriety-is-considered-a-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Artists for Whom Sobriety Is Considered a Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5811\" title=\"keefron\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/keefron-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/keefron-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/keefron.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is not quite a <em>Last Man Standing<\/em> topic, but it may verge on one. In the glamorous, hedonistic world of rock &#8216;n roll it&#8217;s rare that fans actually consider a favorite artist&#8217;s sobriety a plus. <strong>Steve Earle<\/strong>&#8216;s sobriety recently came up in discussion, and he seems to be one artist that even longtime fans would agree has benefitted\u2014<em>artistically speaking<\/em>\u2014from cleaning up his life. I mean, hardcore Earle fans would agree that his talents have at least been maintained through sobriety if not deepened, right?<\/p>\n<p>Leaving the obvious personal health benefits of any rock artists&#8217; sobriety aside, which artists come to mind as having grown artistically, at least initially,\u00a0by getting his or her life together?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not quite a Last Man Standing topic, but it may verge on one. In the glamorous, hedonistic world of rock &#8216;n roll it&#8217;s rare that fans actually consider a favorite artist&#8217;s sobriety a plus. Steve Earle&#8216;s sobriety recently came up in discussion, and he seems to be one artist that even longtime fans <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-artists-for-whom-sobriety-is-considered-a-plus\/' 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\/5810"}],"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=5810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}