{"id":458,"date":"2006-12-03T08:52:58","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T13:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/458"},"modified":"2006-12-03T09:18:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T14:18:44","slug":"provoke-me-go-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/458","title":{"rendered":"Provoke Me.  Go Ahead."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even some of my very favorite bloggers can piss me off from time to time.&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2006_11_26_atrios_archive.html#116507435693076572\">Such is life<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong> Nickelback <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know always know what the kids are listening to these days, but I just switched on VH1 and was immediately possessed by the spirit of Butthead:\n<\/p>\n<p>What the hell is this crap?<\/p>\n<p>If you really need to know what I&#8217;m talking about, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=zno4hMB8rn0\">here it is.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know Duncan&#8230;I feel the same way about two-thirds of the music you speak adoringly of on your blog.&nbsp; I&#8217;d rather listen to cats fighting then most of it.&nbsp; I&#8217;d rather listen to a jackhammer symphony then most of it.&nbsp; I&#8217;d rather listen to a fifty car pile-up on the JFX then most of it.&nbsp; But I don&#8217;t usually feel compelled to say anything about it.&nbsp; If it makes you happy, or any of your readers happy&#8230;fine.&nbsp; There&#8217;s little enough of that in this poor world.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if Nickelback ever made anything else worth listening to, and I don&#8217;t care.&nbsp; I like that song.&nbsp; It speaks to me.&nbsp; If it doesn&#8217;t speak to you, then <em>turn the fucking dial<\/em>.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=center>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YG6E6U47xZ8\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YG6E6U47xZ8\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even some of my very favorite bloggers can piss me off from time to time.&nbsp; Such is life&#8230; Nickelback I don&#8217;t know always know what the kids are listening to these days, but I just switched on VH1 and was immediately possessed by the spirit of Butthead: What the hell is this crap? If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}