{"id":6973,"date":"2015-02-25T17:08:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T00:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=6973"},"modified":"2015-02-25T17:08:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T00:08:21","slug":"on-the-connection-between-cars-and-rock-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/25\/on-the-connection-between-cars-and-rock-music\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Connection Between Cars and Rock Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/zz-top_billy-gibbons-driving-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"zz-top_billy-gibbons-driving\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/zz-top_billy-gibbons-driving-1.jpg\" width=\"440\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;<em>the mobility afforded by the automobile combined with a rockin\u2019 soundtrack was a recipe for spiritual liberation. Play loud and drive fast \u2013 these things go hand in glove. It\u2019s really not a coincidence that the popularity of hot rods and custom cars was concurrent with the rise of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll \u2013 they\u2019re really about the same thing.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">&#8211;Billy Gibbons, lead guitarist, ZZ Top<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Quote sourced from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zztop.com\/2015\/zz-top-40-years-of-rock-n-roll-cars\/\">here<\/a>; photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantpanther.com\/?p=5334\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;the mobility afforded by the automobile combined with a rockin\u2019 soundtrack was a recipe for spiritual liberation. Play loud and drive fast \u2013 these things go hand in glove. It\u2019s really not a coincidence that the popularity of hot rods and custom cars was concurrent with the rise of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll \u2013 they\u2019re really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973","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=6973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}