{"id":2338,"date":"2014-07-03T11:19:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T18:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/heavy-metal-fails-to-corrupt\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T18:35:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T01:35:27","slug":"heavy-metal-fails-to-corrupt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/heavy-metal-fails-to-corrupt\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy metal fails to corrupt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>A letter writer recently wrote about the Rockstar Mayhem Festival (in Auburn). He felt the heavy metal including aggressive sounds and angry lyrics would corrupt our young people.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>As a baby boomer, I listened to AC\/DC but never turned gay. I listened to Ted Nugent but never got &#8220;Cat Scratch Fever.&#8221; I listened to KISS (Knights in Satan&#8217;s Service) and never worshipped Satan. In my 50s, I&#8217;m a happy well adjusted atheist.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Even the Captain and Tennille could not coax me into beastiality with their disgusting ballad &#8220;Muskrat Love.&#8221; It was just music. None of use physically &#8220;did the jitterbug in muskratland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>As Bart Simpson would say, &#8220;Don&#8217;t have a cow, man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013\u00a0Dennis Doucette<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A letter writer recently wrote about the Rockstar Mayhem Festival (in Auburn). He felt the heavy metal including aggressive sounds and angry lyrics would corrupt our young people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}