{"id":2049,"date":"2008-01-31T08:44:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T13:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2008-01-31T08:44:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T13:44:27","slug":"mission-for-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"Mission For Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kool Aid Report is running a poll &#8211; &#8220;Best Metal Song&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I nominated &#8220;Running WIth The Devil&#8221; by Van Halen.\u00a0 If you have a minute or two, r<a href=\"http:\/\/koolaidreport.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/van-halen-threatens-to-tear-mob-apart.html\">un by and give it a vote, if you please.<\/a>\u00a0 Kid Leo of WMMS in Cleveland &#8211; the greatest rock and roll disk jockey of all time &#8211; calls it the best metal song of all time, and if Kid Leo and I agree about anything, well, go with Kid Leo anyway.\u00a0 Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Now, metalheads might ask &#8220;is that really metal?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To which I respond with a thwack upside their fool heads; who cares?\u00a0 The definition of &#8220;Metal&#8221; has bounced around like a ferret on Jaegermeister over the past 25 years, and all you metalheads better shut up or I&#8217;ll sic Wilson Pickett on you.<\/p>\n<p>And you don&#8217;t want that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kool Aid Report is running a poll &#8211; &#8220;Best Metal Song&#8221;. I nominated &#8220;Running WIth The Devil&#8221; by Van Halen.\u00a0 If you have a minute or two, run by and give it a vote, if you please.\u00a0 Kid Leo of WMMS in Cleveland &#8211; the greatest rock and roll disk jockey of all time &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}