{"id":24623,"date":"2016-01-29T06:05:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T14:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24623"},"modified":"2016-01-29T06:05:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T14:05:25","slug":"paul-kantner-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/29\/paul-kantner-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Kantner, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh no. Another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/29\/arts\/music\/paul-kantner-of-jefferson-airplane-dies-at-74.html\" target=\"_blank\">great classic rocker<\/a> &#8212; folk-rocker, acid-rocker &#8212; is gone.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Kantner was always a favorite, not only for his slightly geeky beauty, mellow voice, and style, but because he had a science-fiction sensibility that marked his greatest songs. For all his rockstar cool, I always felt like he was One of Us &#8212; the high school misfits, the people who &#8220;think too much&#8221; for their own good, the ones who&#8217;d probably rather be in their bedrooms reading Asimov, Heinlein, and Bradbury than getting public attention. People who&#8217;d rather not be messed with by authority, too.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, I can still get a touch of contact high from listening to those old Jefferson Airplane songs. Kantner, Balin, Kaukonen, Slick &#8230; loved &#8217;em all, each with their own remarkable talents, meshing so magically.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, Paul Kantner, not you, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh no. Another great classic rocker &#8212; folk-rocker, acid-rocker &#8212; is gone. Paul Kantner was always a favorite, not only for his slightly geeky beauty, mellow voice, and style, but because he had a science-fiction sensibility that marked his greatest songs. For all his rockstar cool, I always felt like he was One of Us &#8212; the high school misfits, the people who &#8220;think too much&#8221; for their own good, the ones who&#8217;d probably rather be in their bedrooms reading Asimov, Heinlein, and Bradbury than getting public attention. People who&#8217;d rather not be messed with by authority, too. Besides, I&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/29\/paul-kantner-rip\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Paul Kantner, RIP<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}