{"id":59336,"date":"2015-04-17T14:33:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T18:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59336"},"modified":"2015-04-18T08:54:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T12:54:19","slug":"country-music-and-them-evil-gun-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59336","title":{"rendered":"Country Music and Them Evil Gun Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll readily admit I haven&#8217;t really followed country music since it got all poppy, but this story is toooo good to leave alone. Still enjoy bluegrass and old country though.<\/p>\n<p>Almost by definition old &#8220;Country&#8221; music embraced a certain rural paradigm that included guns &#8216;n ammo as a part of life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-hollywood\/2015\/04\/14\/country-singers-tim-mcgraw-billy-currington-headlining-gun-control-fundraiser\/\">However, some current country stars have stepped in the Kimchi.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aside: In all fairness Kimchi is supposed to be a very healthy food, but my use of it here should make clear my opinion.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;On July 17, country singers Tim McGraw and Billy Currington will headline a fundraiser for gun control group Sandy Hook Promise in Connecticut.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then today we get the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-hollywood\/2015\/04\/17\/billy-currington-pulls-out-of-tim-mcgraws-gun-control-concert-amid-fan-outrage\/\"> news that one of the above is saying\u00a0 &#8211; &#8220;DOH!&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Country fans were outraged and on April 16, Currington announced he was pulling out of the concert.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I rather appreciate the general &#8220;care about the victims&#8221; attitude, and am willing to believe this event is just performer management lack of wisdom, but when your name is involved the performer has primary responsibility methinks.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I can name a\u00a0 single Billy Currington tune just now, but I soon will. If I like it I will buy a CD as well.\u00a0 His move took a certain sense of responsibility that I want to support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll readily admit I haven&#8217;t really followed country music since it got all poppy, but this &hellip; <a title=\"Country Music and Them Evil Gun Things\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59336\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Country Music and Them Evil Gun Things<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geezer-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}