{"id":13235,"date":"2014-01-13T09:52:53","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T15:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13235"},"modified":"2014-01-13T09:52:53","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T15:52:53","slug":"the-loss-of-allusion-in-heavy-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/13\/the-loss-of-allusion-in-heavy-metal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Loss of Allusion in Heavy Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kids these days, wot?<\/p>\n<p>Back in my day, heavy metal music was much smarter.  Its songs covered Romantic poetry:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fIzUTgtZ9_Q?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alluded to middle English plays:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0u8teXR8VE4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sure, it&#8217;s just <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em>, but Ratt knew who they were.<\/p>\n<p>Or at the very least retold the stories found in the works of respected elder horror writers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EDtJQxtBMNI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You know, as though the songwriters had read a book or something.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve sampled some recent hard rock and heavy metal, and I don&#8217;t see a similar literary bent to it.  What am I missing?<\/p>\n<p>Or has it in fact dumbed down with the rest of our culture now that the classics aren&#8217;t even nodded at in contemporary education?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids these days, wot? Back in my day, heavy metal music was much smarter. Its songs covered Romantic poetry: Alluded to middle English plays: Sure, it&#8217;s just Romeo and Juliet, but Ratt knew who they were. Or at the very least retold the stories found in the works of respected elder horror writers. You know, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13236,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13235\/revisions\/13236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}