{"id":1254,"date":"2007-03-19T08:50:49","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T08:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/19\/crucial-questions-of-my-high-s\/"},"modified":"2007-03-19T08:50:49","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T08:50:49","slug":"crucial-questions-of-my-high-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/19\/crucial-questions-of-my-high-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Crucial Questions of My High School Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Kurt&#8217;s Krap, there&#8217;s extensive discussion of the relative merits of <a href=\"http:\/\/kurtskrap.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/week-in-rock-week-of-march-12-part-1.html\">Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth<\/a> as the front man for Van Halen. You can also find them discussing <a href=\"http:\/\/kurtskrap.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/week-in-rock-week-of-march-12-part-2.html\">a bunch of other songs<\/a>, but the Hagar\/Roth question is the important one.<\/p>\n<p>By a weird coincidence, I read Chuck Klosterman&#8217;s <cite>Fargo Rock City<\/cite> over the weekend (booklog post forthcoming), which also contains an extensive discussion of this critical pop-culture question.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of a tough call: Roth had more style, but Hagar was a little more consistent. I&#8217;d probably go with Roth, but I have a soft spot for Hagar, as the first rock concert I went to was Van Halen on the OU812 tour in Syracuse.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Cherone, of course, was a total joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Kurt&#8217;s Krap, there&#8217;s extensive discussion of the relative merits of Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth as the front man for Van Halen. You can also find them discussing a bunch of other songs, but the Hagar\/Roth question is the important one. By a weird coincidence, I read Chuck Klosterman&#8217;s Fargo Rock City&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/03\/19\/crucial-questions-of-my-high-s\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crucial Questions of My High School Years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}