{"id":6269,"date":"2011-03-15T21:12:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T01:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=6269"},"modified":"2011-03-16T09:37:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T13:37:38","slug":"last-man-standing-jesus-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-jesus-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Jesus Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" src=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" data=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>This one&#8217;s gonna be hell to referee, but someone&#8217;s gotta do it: <strong>Jesus songs\u2014<\/strong><em>Rock &#8216;n Roll Jesus songs<\/em>\u2014which we will define as songs including Jesus in the title OR prominently featuring Jesus, specifically, as the main character or subject matter of the song.<\/p>\n<p>Songs referring broadly (or specifically) to God, Lord, Him, The Boss, or what have you are <em>not eligible<\/em> for this contest. The songs must\u00a0be about Jesus, and address Him by name.<\/p>\n<p>Songs in which a singer simply asks for Jesus&#8217; help or take His name in vain as a throwaway line are <em>not eligible<\/em> for this contest, unless the throwaway or blasphemous reference to Jesus is in the song&#8217;s title.<\/p>\n<p>The song must be, at least broadly, a rock &#8216;n roll song. Some gospel song that Little Richard did during one of his sacred periods does not count solely because Little Richard is &#8220;rock &#8216;n roll.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crystal clear? I thought so! In honor of our Jesus-obsessed Townsman of the Jewish faith,<strong>\u00a0andyr<\/strong>, let&#8217;s kick things off with one of my favorite Jesus songs composed by a musician of Jewish heritage, <strong>The Velvet Underground&#8217;s &#8220;Jesus.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The race is on.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one&#8217;s gonna be hell to referee, but someone&#8217;s gotta do it: Jesus songs\u2014Rock &#8216;n Roll Jesus songs\u2014which we will define as songs including Jesus in the title OR prominently featuring Jesus, specifically, as the main character or subject matter of the song. Songs referring broadly (or specifically) to God, Lord, Him, The Boss, or <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-jesus-songs\/' 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":[55,213,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269"}],"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=6269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}