{"id":6054,"date":"2011-03-01T19:30:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T23:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=6054"},"modified":"2011-03-01T20:30:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T00:30:26","slug":"if-you-don%e2%80%99t-break-out-into-a-shit-eating-grin-while-watching-this-then-man-i-don%e2%80%99t-have-an-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/if-you-don%e2%80%99t-break-out-into-a-shit-eating-grin-while-watching-this-then-man-i-don%e2%80%99t-have-an-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Don\u2019t Break Out Into a Shit-Eating Grin While Watching This Then, Man, I Don\u2019t Have an Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GazzTFxXGeE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>How did so many pedestrian guitar wankers (eg, Pat Travers, Frank Marino) catch on with the &#8220;cool&#8221; kids in my high school yet I never heard them talk about <strong>Rory Gallagher<\/strong>?\u00a0I\u00a0was only aware of him through\u00a0occasional references in actually cool magazines, like <em>Trouser Press<\/em>,\u00a0that only aspiring rock nerds like my teenage self ever read?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t how much mileage I&#8217;d ever get simply listening to this guy, but any time I click on a video performance of him I&#8217;m rocking like Danny DeVito&#8217;s character in <em>One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest<\/em>. He&#8217;s more than a shin kicker, I tell you. <em>Mach schau, Rory, mach schau!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And let us not forget to send <em>Mad props<\/em> to his bassist&#8217;s stance and so many other delights in this clip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did so many pedestrian guitar wankers (eg, Pat Travers, Frank Marino) catch on with the &#8220;cool&#8221; kids in my high school yet I never heard them talk about Rory Gallagher?\u00a0I\u00a0was only aware of him through\u00a0occasional references in actually cool magazines, like Trouser Press,\u00a0that only aspiring rock nerds like my teenage self ever read? I <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/if-you-don%e2%80%99t-break-out-into-a-shit-eating-grin-while-watching-this-then-man-i-don%e2%80%99t-have-an-answer\/' 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":[212,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054"}],"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=6054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}