{"id":6848,"date":"2011-04-21T11:46:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T15:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=6848"},"modified":"2011-04-21T11:46:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T15:46:40","slug":"rock-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LUASiDg-kg4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>We all know too well that rock is still thought of in most circles as a young person&#8217;s game.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s not what I&#8217;m thinking of here. Some bands, you have to get into them when you&#8217;re relatively young. For instance, <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong> and <strong>The Doors\u2014<\/strong>let&#8217;s face it, their lyrical concerns are almost perfectly pitched to appeal to teenagers, but, in another light, those same concerns are just so damn goofy, you can&#8217;t possibly take them seriously as an adult. I can&#8217;t, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a similar band from a different subculture\u2014<strong>Fugazi<\/strong>. Could a 30-year-old really get into Fugazi for the first time? It&#8217;s nothing to do with their intrinsic quality as a band, but you need to be unformed to some degree to pick up what that band&#8217;s offering, I submit.<\/p>\n<p>And let&#8217;s be really honest. If you&#8217;re 25 and you haven&#8217;t gone through a <strong>Beatles <\/strong>phase yet, it&#8217;s probably not going to happen. Move on.<\/p>\n<p>And this isn&#8217;t just about music. It works for authors (<strong>Salinger<\/strong>) and directors (<strong>David Lynch<\/strong>, <strong>Woody Allen<\/strong>?) too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know too well that rock is still thought of in most circles as a young person&#8217;s game.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s not what I&#8217;m thinking of here. Some bands, you have to get into them when you&#8217;re relatively young. For instance, Pink Floyd and The Doors\u2014let&#8217;s face it, their lyrical concerns are almost perfectly pitched <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-for-kids\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848"}],"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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}