{"id":832,"date":"2003-09-14T23:26:56","date_gmt":"2003-09-14T23:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/the-man-in-black\/"},"modified":"2003-09-14T23:26:56","modified_gmt":"2003-09-14T23:26:56","slug":"the-man-in-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/the-man-in-black\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man in Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only in the past few months that I&#8217;ve come to realise how similar rap, punk, blues, reggae and country and western are. Of course you&#8217;ll think I&#8217;m talking shit. But these are all types of folk music. Music made famous not by record companies, but by being passed on. No-one is pushing it at the moment, but I defy you to find someone aged 20-40 in the western world who hasn&#8217;t heard at least one of &#8220;God save the queen&#8221;, &#8220;Don&#8217;t believe the hype&#8221;, and &#8220;a boy named sue&#8221;. Ok you can probably find one or two &#8211; but I bet they own a Brittney spears record or two.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight Michele and I took my mum and dad to an eatery in Deptford called &#8220;Kaya House&#8221; that I&#8217;ve probably talked bologs about before. A superb meal that, due to the massive amounts of chilli, garlic and ginger, made me feel a lot more healthy. They came back to ours, appreciated Humphrey and generally made it a good night. Good night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s only in the past few months that I&#8217;ve come to realise how similar rap, punk, blues, reggae and country and western are. Of course you&#8217;ll think I&#8217;m talking shit. But these are all types of folk music. Music made famous not by record companies, but by being passed on. No-one is pushing it at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}