{"id":7143,"date":"2011-05-16T08:53:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T12:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=7143"},"modified":"2011-05-16T08:53:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T12:53:34","slug":"rock-n-roll-mediocrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-n-roll-mediocrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock &#8216;n Roll Mediocrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7144\" title=\"mediocrity\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mediocrity.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"228\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Driving home from my son&#8217;s soccer game yesterday we tried to get our minds off a most-frustrating loss and near &#8220;global red card,&#8221; as the ref put it, by turning on our Classic Rock station. The following 3-song sequence played in the following order,\u00a0which I explained to my son might have represented absolute rock &#8216;n roll mediocrity and the two points on either side of that state:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Steve Miller Band, &#8220;Jet Airliner&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Bad Company, &#8220;Can&#8217;t Get Enough of Your Love&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>John Cougar Mellencamp, &#8220;Jack and Diane&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I felt that one of these songs represented\u00a0the absolute point of rock &#8216;n roll mediocrity, while the other two just toed the line on either side of the mediocrity. Where would you place these songs along the narrow spectrum of mediocrity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving home from my son&#8217;s soccer game yesterday we tried to get our minds off a most-frustrating loss and near &#8220;global red card,&#8221; as the ref put it, by turning on our Classic Rock station. The following 3-song sequence played in the following order,\u00a0which I explained to my son might have represented absolute rock &#8216;n <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-n-roll-mediocrity\/' 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":[261],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143"}],"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=7143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}