{"id":257,"date":"2008-03-18T00:35:35","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T00:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullcull.wordpress.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2008-03-18T00:35:35","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T00:35:35","slug":"culture-vulture-the-27-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"Culture Vulture: The 27 Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/skullcull.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/27-club.jpg\\\" title=\\\"27 club\\\"><img src=\\\"http:\/\/skullcull.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/27-club.jpg\\\" alt=\\\"27 club\\\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jimi, Jim, Janice, Brian Jones and Kurt Cobain &#8212; all members of the 27 club. At one point it was an idiotic belief that I\\&#8217;d be joining them: thank god that didn\\&#8217;t work out. I can sing but I don\\&#8217;t have the rock star chops &#8212; maybe rock star poet, to a degree. What does the world think of when it thinks of these people? &#8212; it  thinks of what is lost. Who the hell would want to be part of that group? Sure, they had great creativity while they were alive but that wasn\\&#8217;t long enough and all of them died in pretty needless ways. They have some glamour but I am sure the death scenes were pretty off-putting. Better to carry on being creative than end up as a pretty corpse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nNow playing: <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.foxytunes.com\/artist\/blind+melon\/track\/toes+across+the+floor\\\" title=\\\"\\'Blind Melon - Toes Across The Floor\\' - open on FoxyTunes Planet\\\">Blind Melon &#8211; Toes Across The Floor<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\\\"color:#999999;font-style:italic;font-size:10px;\\\">via <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.foxytunes.com\/signatunes\/\\\" title=\\\"FoxyTunes - Web of music at your fingertips\\\">FoxyTunes<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimi, Jim, Janice, Brian Jones and Kurt Cobain &#8212; all members of the 27 club. At one point it was an idiotic belief that I\\&#8217;d be joining them: thank god that didn\\&#8217;t work out. I can sing but I don\\&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=257\"> Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,42,70,108,136,157,171],"tags":[316,359,407,623,637,638,669,777],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-culture-vulture","category-grunge","category-music","category-rebellious-jukebox","category-the-doors","category-updates","tag-brian-jones","tag-club-27","tag-dead-rock-stars","tag-janis-joplin","tag-jim-morrison","tag-jimi-hendrix","tag-kurt-cobain","tag-musicians"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}