{"id":31786,"date":"2013-02-25T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31786"},"modified":"2013-02-25T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T22:38:09","slug":"bruce-springsteen-is-americas-greatest-conservative-songwriter-part-x-the-local-cops-rip-this-holy-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=31786","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Springsteen Is America&#8217;s Greatest Conservative Songwriter, Part X:  The Local Cops Rip This Holy Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m gonna give you a two-fer here. \u00a0We&#8217;ll cover two of Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s definitions of what makes \u00a0a conservative in one article, since they&#8217;re both just a tad thin.<\/p>\n<p>The first of the two &#8211; &#8220;<strong>Conservatives uphold voluntary community, quite as they oppose involuntary collectivism<\/strong>&#8220;? \u00a0Gotta confess, that one&#8217;s pretty thin throughout the history of rock and roll. \u00a0I&#8217;ll cop to it; other than &#8220;meeting beneath that giant Exxon sign&#8221;, or driving out to Greasy Lake, or meeting at Mary&#8217;s Place, it doesn&#8217;t pop up much.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll let that one slide for now.<\/p>\n<p>The other &#8211; &#8220;<strong>the Conservative recognizes the need for prudent restraint on power and passion<\/strong>?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, there&#8217;s always &#8220;Roulette&#8221;, the often-bootlegged anti-nuke anthem:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aESH2f6qi_g\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Which isn&#8217;t really close, but it&#8217;s such a cool recording I don&#8217;t care much.<\/p>\n<p>More seriously?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be back with the final parts of this series later in the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m gonna give you a two-fer here. \u00a0We&#8217;ll cover two of Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s definitions of what makes \u00a0a conservative in one article, since they&#8217;re both just a tad thin. The first of the two &#8211; &#8220;Conservatives uphold voluntary community, quite as they oppose involuntary collectivism&#8220;? \u00a0Gotta confess, that one&#8217;s pretty thin throughout the history of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[240,172],"class_list":["post-31786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism","category-music","tag-conservatism-and-springsteen","tag-springsteen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31786","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=31786"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34569,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31786\/revisions\/34569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}