{"id":5830,"date":"2011-02-14T10:30:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=5830"},"modified":"2011-02-14T10:30:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T14:30:15","slug":"please-explain-leonard-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-explain-leonard-cohen\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Explain: Leonard Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zqu3U05tkAw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><em>In a world that&#8217;s already given us <strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong> and <strong>Dustin Hoffman<\/strong>, why is <strong>Leonard Cohen<\/strong> celebrated as a rock &#8216;n roll treasure?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I enjoy Leonard Cohen in small doses, especially songs from <em>Songs of Leonard Cohen<\/em>, his debut, which should have been entitled <em>Suzanne and 9 Other Songs That Have Essentially the Same Melody as Suzanne<\/em>. I like the way his music was used to haunting effect through <strong>Robert Altman<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>McCabe and Mrs. Miller<\/em>. I know he&#8217;s a hipster and a lover and a poet and all that. He&#8217;s made love to many of rock&#8217;s most-beautiful, least-talented hipster women &#8211; in candlelight, no less! The jacket he wore during his 1970 Isle of Wight appearance is something I could study for hours. I even get his appeal as a cult artist, but is he actually something more than that? Do you experience a deeper level of appreciation that I&#8217;m missing? Should I feel the world would be a better place if the music of Leonard Cohen was running through more people&#8217;s heads?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world that&#8217;s already given us Bob Dylan and Dustin Hoffman, why is Leonard Cohen celebrated as a rock &#8216;n roll treasure? I enjoy Leonard Cohen in small doses, especially songs from Songs of Leonard Cohen, his debut, which should have been entitled Suzanne and 9 Other Songs That Have Essentially the Same Melody <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-explain-leonard-cohen\/' 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":[426,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830"}],"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=5830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}