{"id":6171,"date":"2011-03-07T22:48:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T02:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=6171"},"modified":"2011-03-08T09:08:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T13:08:52","slug":"time-machine-the-dreaded-colonel-tom-parker-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/time-machine-the-dreaded-colonel-tom-parker-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Machine: The Dreaded Colonel Tom Parker Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6173\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6173\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6173\" title=\"colonel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/colonel-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/colonel-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/colonel.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Now or never?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You&#8217;ll have to excuse me for raising this odious question, but in the interest of complete honesty and for the good of rock &#8216;n roll, here goes:<!--more-->Knowing what you know about <strong>Colonel Tom Parker<\/strong>&#8216;s influence on <strong>Elvis Presley<\/strong> and, possibly, the state of American rock &#8216;n roll (eg,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/england-claims-victory-in-inaugural-rock-town-hall-world-cup-of-rock-n-roll\/\" target=\"_blank\">RTH World Cup of Rock &#8216;n Roll<\/a><\/em> results), if you could go back in time and meet the Colonel in a darkened alley before he ever met Presley, would you\u2014for the good of rock &#8216;n roll and no other reason\u2014&#8221;off&#8221; him then and there, or would you wait a few years, until Elvis was returning from his military service, and take your chances then?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ll have to excuse me for raising this odious question, but in the interest of complete honesty and for the good of rock &#8216;n roll, here goes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171"}],"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=6171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}