{"id":9359,"date":"2011-09-23T09:46:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T13:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=9359"},"modified":"2011-09-23T12:03:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T16:03:53","slug":"please-explain-fugazi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-explain-fugazi\/","title":{"rendered":"PLEASE EXPLAIN: Fugazi"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gzC0RNkBXM0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I swear I&#8217;m not trying to be an asshole here, and I admit to not being all that familiar with their work, but &#8212; man, I&#8217;ve never really understood Fugazi. And I&#8217;m from Washington, DC!<\/p>\n<p>Minor Threat, I get. HarDCore punk, yeah, &#8220;straight-edge,&#8221; yeah. All sinews and tendons and youth and loudness and anger. Got it. But Fugazi? I dunno, man. They strike me as being, like, a grown-up, much artsier, much\u00a0<em>proggier<\/em> Minor Threat. And I&#8217;m not sure it translates.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/apuLs_ayKRM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Which is not to say I don&#8217;t understand the process\/problem of <strong>growing up punk<\/strong>. And I have to say, the Fugazi backstory rules. All that jazz about $5 shows, $10 albums &#8212; yeah, very Clash, very old-school, very un-DC&#8230; very cool. To be able to &#8220;grow up&#8221; and stay like that is pretty amazing. Kudos. But on the musical tip, I fear I must be missing something. So I guess I&#8217;m throwing my arms open wide, waiting for the nurturing embrace of a Fugazi-loving Townsman who can help me see what I&#8217;m missing. Tell me: why do you like Fugazi so much?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I swear I&#8217;m not trying to be an asshole here, and I admit to not being all that familiar with their work, but &#8212; man, I&#8217;ve never really understood Fugazi. And I&#8217;m from Washington, DC! Minor Threat, I get. HarDCore punk, yeah, &#8220;straight-edge,&#8221; yeah. All sinews and tendons and youth and loudness and anger. Got <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/please-explain-fugazi\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}