{"id":16824,"date":"2017-08-22T07:08:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T12:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16824"},"modified":"2017-08-22T07:08:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T12:08:11","slug":"concept-a-heavy-metal-band-whose-songs-are-kipling-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/22\/concept-a-heavy-metal-band-whose-songs-are-kipling-poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Concept: A Heavy Metal Band Whose Songs Are Kipling Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, if we had a heavy metal version of &#8220;The Hymn of Breaking Strain&#8221;, I would totally put it on my iPod for workout music.  As such, we only have Leslie Fish and Julia Ecklar singing the filk version:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/57LxbIBcTjE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>My goodness, how awesome would many of Kipling&#8217;s works be in heavy metal form.  Just think of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiplingsociety.co.uk\/poems_if.htm\" target=\"_new\">If<\/a>&#8221; or &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiplingsociety.co.uk\/poems_copybook.htm\" target=\"_new\">The Gods of Copybook Headings<\/a>&#8221; really loud.  Frankly, I&#8217;m surprised Iron Maiden hasn&#8217;t already done it.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone needs me, I&#8217;ll be in the parlor practising the power chord on a cheap acoustic guitar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, if we had a heavy metal version of &#8220;The Hymn of Breaking Strain&#8221;, I would totally put it on my iPod for workout music. As such, we only have Leslie Fish and Julia Ecklar singing the filk version: My goodness, how awesome would many of Kipling&#8217;s works be in heavy metal form. Just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16824","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=16824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16825,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16824\/revisions\/16825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}