{"id":9035,"date":"2011-09-03T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=9035"},"modified":"2011-09-02T14:59:42","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T18:59:42","slug":"%e2%80%9ccool%e2%80%9d-is-a-relevant-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/%e2%80%9ccool%e2%80%9d-is-a-relevant-term\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cCool\u201d Is a Relevant Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cool&#8221; is a relative term. If you have any doubt look no further than any of the &#8220;style&#8221; posts here at Rock Town Hall\u2014or better yet, see if you can&#8217;t find pictures\u00a0of some of the dorks who write those posts.<\/p>\n<p><em>Who are we to police rock &#8216;n roll cool<\/em>, you might ask, <em>what makes them arbiters of cool?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Within the Halls of Rock we have developed some common ground on\u00a0what definitely <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> cool in rock &#8216;n roll. The following video, submitted by <strong>Townsman cherguevara<\/strong>, features many elements of fashion, stage presence, and whatnot that pathetically self-appointed guardians of cool like yours truly spend inordinate and unhealthy amounts of time chuckling over. In the spirit of one of our <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/tag\/nice\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nice<\/a><\/em> series of posts, I ask you to view this video and avoid the temptation to shoot ducks in a barrel. Rather, see if you can&#8217;t identify examples of <strong>relative cool<\/strong>.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AAvYHXz7XsA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><em>Please dig deep; don&#8217;t take the easy route and identify obviously cool instrumental fills or laud a musician&#8217;s past glories. In all fairness you may want to turn the volume off.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cool&#8221; is a relative term. If you have any doubt look no further than any of the &#8220;style&#8221; posts here at Rock Town Hall\u2014or better yet, see if you can&#8217;t find pictures\u00a0of some of the dorks who write those posts. Who are we to police rock &#8216;n roll cool, you might ask, what makes them <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/%e2%80%9ccool%e2%80%9d-is-a-relevant-term\/' 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":[346,24,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035"}],"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=9035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}