{"id":9610,"date":"2012-06-23T18:03:17","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T18:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/23\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-rodney-king-and-henry-hill\/"},"modified":"2012-06-23T18:03:17","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T18:03:17","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-rodney-king-and-henry-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/06\/23\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-rodney-king-and-henry-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Rodney King and Henry Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tonight I permit myself a bit of Schadenfreude<\/em> (or is it righteous satisfaction?) at the passing of the 'motorist' Rodney King<\/a> and the 'businessman' Henry Hill<\/a>.  Calling King a 'motorist' as so many knee-jerk liberal journalists did from 1991 on is like calling the mafioso Hill a 'business man.'  In 'honor' of these two sorry specimens of (in)humanity, I propose the following for your listening pleasure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rodney 'Can We All Just Get Along?' King<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Bobby Fuller Four, I Fought the Law and the Law Won<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Andrew Sisters, Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Beatles, I'm a Loser<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Roger Miller, Dang Me<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Johnny Bond, Hot Rod Lincoln<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Roger Miller, King of the Road<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jackie DeShannon, What the World Needs Now<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Henry Hill<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Sam Cooke, Fool's Paradise<\/a>.  What a great song!  Unfortunately Cooke did not take his own advice, and died young in consequence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hank Williams, Lost Highway<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Byrds, Life in Prison<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Merle Haggard, The Fugitive<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Derek and the Dominoes, Layla (Piano Exit)<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight I permit myself a bit of Schadenfreude (or is it righteous satisfaction?) at the passing of the 'motorist' Rodney King and the 'businessman' Henry Hill.  Calling King a 'motorist' as so many knee-jerk liberal journalists did from 1991 on is like calling the mafioso Hill a 'business man.'  In 'honor' of these two sorry … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Rodney King and Henry Hill”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}