{"id":1132,"date":"2012-08-27T09:58:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T13:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2012-08-27T09:58:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T13:58:03","slug":"death-metal-the-sound-of-tampa-wont-be-heard-at-republican-convention-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/08\/27\/death-metal-the-sound-of-tampa-wont-be-heard-at-republican-convention-reuters\/","title":{"rendered":"Death metal, the sound of Tampa, won&#8217;t be heard at Republican convention | Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When they convene in Tampa to nominate Mitt Romney for president next week, Republicans will not hear a note from the city&#8217;s most notable musical exports: death-metal bands such as Deicide and Obituary.<\/p>\n<p>The South Bronx hatched hip-hop and Seattle birthed grunge rock. Tampa gave the world death metal, a boundary-pushing style of heavy rock that features lyrics that can be decidedly anti-Christian.<\/p>\n<p>Some say it&#8217;s ironic that a party that includes large numbers of religious conservatives would hold its convention in the city that fostered a musical genre known for album titles like &#8220;To Hell With God&#8221; and &#8220;Butchered At Birth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of like having a group called Abstinence for the Sexually Anxious holding its convention in San Francisco,&#8221; said Steve Huey, a critic at AllMusic.com. &#8220;Or a group called Society for the Hatred of Corn deciding to meet up in Iowa.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/08\/25\/us-usa-campaign-deathmetal-idUSBRE87O03S20120825\">Death metal, the sound of Tampa, won&#8217;t be heard at Republican convention | Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When they convene in Tampa to nominate Mitt Romney for president next week, Republicans will not hear a note from the city&#8217;s most notable musical exports: death-metal bands such as Deicide and Obituary. The South Bronx hatched hip-hop and Seattle birthed grunge rock. Tampa gave the world death metal, a boundary-pushing style of heavy rock &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/2012\/08\/27\/death-metal-the-sound-of-tampa-wont-be-heard-at-republican-convention-reuters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Death metal, the sound of Tampa, won&#8217;t be heard at Republican convention | Reuters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2skW4-ig","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gabrielsnyder.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}