{"id":237,"date":"2005-05-10T13:48:41","date_gmt":"2005-05-10T13:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2005-05-10T13:48:41","modified_gmt":"2005-05-10T13:48:41","slug":"gaiman_on_punk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/05\/10\/gaiman_on_punk\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaiman on Punk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a big fan of punk music, which was always too unrelentingly angry and anti-everything for my tastes. But I did find <i>Sandman<\/i> writer Neil Gaiman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/2005\/05\/waking-up-and-catching-up.asp\">recent comments<\/a> on the subject interesting, and even inspirational:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I think that the punk ethos of you don&#8217;t need anything, you just need to do it and figure out what you&#8217;re doing as you go, has probably informed everything I&#8217;ve done since [the punk movement]. It seemed a pretty sensible and refreshing idea at the time. Likewise the idea that you ought to be enjoying what you&#8217;re doing and be doing it because you think it&#8217;s cool and fun. The idea that mistakes are part of what make things interesting, and it&#8217;s probably wisest to get it right and move on and not spend the rest of your life polishing it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(It also left me with the idea that a black leather jacket was an appropriate sartorial item in any possible context.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a big fan of punk music, which was always too unrelentingly angry and anti-everything for my tastes. But I did find Sandman writer Neil Gaiman&#8217;s recent comments on the subject interesting, and even inspirational: I think that the punk ethos of you don&#8217;t need anything, you just need to do it and figure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings","category-music-and-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}