{"id":3749,"date":"2008-12-04T08:44:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T13:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2008-12-04T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T15:17:02","slug":"the-inescapable-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3749","title":{"rendered":"The Inescapable Conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great band?\u00a0 Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Great song?\u00a0 Yes &#8211; indeed, one of my favorite songs of the rock and roll era.<\/p>\n<p>Excellent performance of a great song by that great band?\u00a0 Oh, my, yes.<\/p>\n<p>But after all these years, it&#8217;s incumbent on the responsible to say that, &#8220;performer&#8221; and &#8220;sex symbol&#8221; and outsized personality and media myths aside, and considering only technical ability, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NUJVS5n6t5I&#038;feature=related\">Mick Jagger would get laughed out of karaoke night as a singer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t shoot the messenger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great band?\u00a0 Yes. Great song?\u00a0 Yes &#8211; indeed, one of my favorite songs of the rock and roll era. Excellent performance of a great song by that great band?\u00a0 Oh, my, yes. But after all these years, it&#8217;s incumbent on the responsible to say that, &#8220;performer&#8221; and &#8220;sex symbol&#8221; and outsized personality and media myths [&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-3749","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\/3749","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=3749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}