{"id":7239,"date":"2011-05-23T11:54:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T15:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=7239"},"modified":"2011-05-23T11:55:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T15:55:19","slug":"last-man-standing-or-rock-town-hall-presents-life-lessons-to-be-a-rock-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-or-rock-town-hall-presents-life-lessons-to-be-a-rock-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing, or Rock Town Hall Presents <em>Life Lessons: To Be a Rock Star<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zcXrcdEsWto?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><strong>Townsman hrrundivbakshi<\/strong> proposed a <strong>Last Man Standing<\/strong> thread on songs about what it means to be a <strong>Rock Star<\/strong>. I thought we&#8217;d already done a meta-rock LMS, which may have had a lot of overlap, but my man HVB was specific:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I want songs that are about becoming a rock star \u2014 the follies, the foibles, the <strong>Life Lessons<\/strong> learned. Cautionary tales. Aren\u2019t they all cautionary? Can anybody think of an upbeat \u201cJohnny became a rock star\u201d song?<\/p>\n<p>I answer my own question with <strong>Chuck Berry<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cJohnny B. Goode.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You are welcome to treat this thread as a standard <strong>Last Man Standing<\/strong>, in which\u2014one entry per comment\u2014you aim to be king of the hill, top of the heap among rock nerds exhausting the last answer possible to suit the LMS criteria, but better yet, I ask you to pull on your analytical skills so that we might provide future generations with a summary of the collected Life Lessons of what it means to be a rock star. As you submit your answer, see if you can&#8217;t point out a key message or two from the song you have entered. Our work can then be compiled and provided to career counselors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townsman hrrundivbakshi proposed a Last Man Standing thread on songs about what it means to be a Rock Star. I thought we&#8217;d already done a meta-rock LMS, which may have had a lot of overlap, but my man HVB was specific: I want songs that are about becoming a rock star \u2014 the follies, the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-or-rock-town-hall-presents-life-lessons-to-be-a-rock-star\/' 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],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239"}],"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=7239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}