{"id":1212,"date":"2011-04-28T19:05:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T23:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2011-04-28T19:37:28","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T23:37:28","slug":"8-5-rise-against-endgame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2011\/8-5-rise-against-endgame\/","title":{"rendered":"8.5 Rise Against: Endgame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t think I could ever warm up to this kind of over-produced hard rock.<\/p>\n<p>Even if it is labelled punk rock.  PUNK??  What the&#8230; cmon this is NOT PUNK.  This is fast-paced arena rock.  It has NOTHING TO DO WITH PUNK ROCK.  Thin Lizzy was writing this stuff years before the Clash existed.<\/p>\n<p>But something about it caught my attention.  Lyrical strenth.  So i <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rise_Against\">wikied<\/a> the band.  And discovered truth.  Straight-edge vegan truth.  Rockin!  So I opened up and listened.  And the lyrics don&#8217;t get any stronger.  The videos are inspiring.  And once I got that far, it became most excellent running music &#8211; I ran the hardest few miles of my life on this stuff yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>So I guess I have to let it be lumped in with other dispensers of truth &#8211; like my favorites, <a http:\/\/www.consolidatedmusic.org>Consolidated<\/a>, who have spun into outer orbit.  Oh yeah!  Truth comes in many strange forms.  :><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t think I could ever warm up to this kind of over-produced hard rock. Even if it is labelled punk rock. PUNK?? What the&#8230; cmon this is NOT PUNK. This is fast-paced arena rock. It has NOTHING TO DO WITH PUNK ROCK. Thin Lizzy was writing this stuff years before the Clash existed. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2011\/8-5-rise-against-endgame\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">8.5 Rise Against: Endgame<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,4,25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heavy-rotation","category-rants-and-raves","category-reviews","category-words-of-wisdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-jy","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":75,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2003\/punk-rock-aint-dead\/","url_meta":{"origin":1212,"position":0},"title":"9.0 High Fidelity","author":"m","date":"May 14, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Jammed with wit, Ferris-Bueller-protagonist-as-narrator-style, and a running alternative-music subtext perfect for those of us reared on the late-70's punk rock thingee. 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