{"id":9205,"date":"2011-09-14T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=9205"},"modified":"2011-09-14T07:44:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T11:44:31","slug":"presidential-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/presidential-hair\/","title":{"rendered":"What Rockers Have the Most Presidential Hair?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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That's cheating, man!<\/p><\/div>\n

These days politics pretty much disgust and depress me. Growing up I wanted to be Mayor of Philadelphia. No joke. I read books about my hometown mayor, Frank Rizzo<\/a><\/strong>; Chicago’s Richard Daley<\/a><\/strong>; and those corrupt big city mayors from earlier in the 20th century. I wanted to learn from their successes and mistakes. I wanted to wield power for the good of The People, shape civic pride, throw out the first pitch on Opening Day… I wanted to shake hands with strangers and kiss babies… I wanted to call out Public Enemies for my political gain now and then. Most of my priorities were in the right place. At some point in the mid-’80s, the dream ended along with so many other idealistic notions from my youth. The ’80s were a dream assassin, man.<\/p>\n

As politics revealed itself as a world too cynical for even me, Ronald Reagan<\/a><\/strong> did usher in one fascinating trend: Presidential Hair<\/a><\/strong>. Harkening back to the idealistic coif of JFK<\/a><\/strong>, Reagan’s ‘do set the tone for future political campaigns. The humble strands of hair remaining on a candidate like\u00a0Paul Tsongas<\/strong><\/a> would forever be at a disadvantage. The team of scientists and architects behind Joe Biden<\/a><\/strong>‘s hairline would be only Vice Presidential in reach. Presidential Hair<\/a> does not ensure<\/a> a seat in the Oval Office<\/a>, but since the triumph of Reagan,\u00a0each election<\/a> sets a new crop of hair-hoppers<\/a> across American campaign trails.<\/p>\n

If we ever get around to conducting Townsman alexmagic<\/strong>‘s long-promised election of an international\u00a0President of Rock<\/strong>, we should prepare for the role that Presidential Hair might play in the race.\u00a0Simply put:\u00a0What rockers have the most Presidential Hair?<\/em> How do we define Presidential Hair as it applies to our future President of Rock? Is Elvis<\/strong> the JFK of Rock Presidential Hair? A particular era in\u00a0Beatles<\/strong> hair styling?<\/p>\n

Chances are the book has yet to be written, but it won’t hurt us to see if we can’t take a peak at the outline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These days politics pretty much disgust and depress me. Growing up I wanted to be Mayor of Philadelphia. No joke. I read books about my hometown mayor, Frank Rizzo; Chicago’s Richard Daley; and those corrupt big city mayors from earlier in the 20th century. I wanted to learn from their successes and mistakes. I wanted […]<\/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":[116,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9205"}],"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=9205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}