{"id":33280,"date":"2025-06-14T17:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T21:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=33280"},"modified":"2025-06-14T17:22:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T21:22:19","slug":"badass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=33280","title":{"rendered":"Badass"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I was reading Tom Breihan\u2019s column on Bon Jovi\u2019s Blaze of Glory, and he said this regarding the song:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBlaze Of Glory\u201d fits into a beautiful rock \u2018n\u2019 roll tradition that has sadly disappeared. It\u2019s a song about being a mythic badass. Can you imagine a rocker \u2014 any kind of rocker \u2014 writing a song about being a badass now? You can\u2019t\u2026They ceded that lyrical territory to rappers\u2026These days, at least as far as I can tell, people in rock bands generally don\u2019t think of themselves as badasses. They don\u2019t even aspire to badassery.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ToddintheShadow\/s\/9mwTVaALYK\">reddit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading Tom Breihan\u2019s column on Bon Jovi\u2019s Blaze of Glory, and he said this regarding the song: \u201cBlaze Of Glory\u201d fits into a beautiful rock \u2018n\u2019 roll tradition that has sadly disappeared. It\u2019s a song about being a mythic badass. Can you imagine a rocker \u2014 any kind of rocker \u2014 writing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33284,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33280\/revisions\/33284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}