{"id":194,"date":"2003-10-19T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2003-10-19T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/?p=194"},"modified":"2003-10-19T08:30:11","modified_gmt":"2003-10-19T13:30:11","slug":"to-be-a-rock-n-roller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/2003\/10\/19\/to-be-a-rock-n-roller\/","title":{"rendered":"To be a rock &#8216;n&#8217; roller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/10\/19\/nyregion\/19rock.html?\">This guy in New York is doing what I&#8217;d be doing<\/a> if I had a scrap of musical talent. By day he works for peanuts at a Mailboxes Etc., but by night he&#8217;s in a rockin&#8217; band.  The leader of the band writes a song about the end of a seven-year relationship and the song it inspired.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the time of the breakup, he said, he felt pretty hopeless about everything. But, he explained: &#8220;Those seven years, and all that I went through afterward, was worth it to get that three minutes of song. No matter how awful life gets, it&#8217;s O.K. if you get a good song out of it. The situation fades away. But the song lasts forever.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pub163.ezboard.com\/forangeparkfrm10.showMessage?topicID=1.topic\">Check out the band&#8217;s tour diary<\/a>. It&#8217;s exactly what you&#8217;d expect when four guys go cross country in a van that can&#8217;t stop breakin&#8217; down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guy in New York is doing what I&#8217;d be doing if I had a scrap of musical talent. By day he works for peanuts at a Mailboxes Etc., but by night he&#8217;s in a rockin&#8217; band. The leader of&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/2003\/10\/19\/to-be-a-rock-n-roller\/\">Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}