{"id":32014,"date":"2013-01-01T22:42:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T05:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/01\/the-stanford-band.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T11:31:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T18:31:45","slug":"the-stanford-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/01\/the-stanford-band.html","title":{"rendered":"The Stanford Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so it&#39;s clearly a matter of taste. For myself, I find the Stanford Band tends a bit toward the self-indulgently iconoclastic\u00a0(sort of like the House GOP), but I can appreciate what they&#39;re striving toward vs. being Just One More Close Order Drill Unit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I admire good music and close order drill. \u00a0Nevertheless, I try not to ascribe moral judgment to aesthetic differences of opinion. Some folks, not so much.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/cdn0.sbnation.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/5913915\/mohawk.0_standard_352.0.gif&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/2013\/1\/1\/3825928\/stanford-band-infuriates-offends-lots-of-terrible-humorless-people'>Stanford band ruins 2013 Rose Bowl (for boring people)<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPeople are awful, have Twitter accounts, and use them to express opinions about harmless, fun things. Like say, the Stanford band!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/gvwdYRYo7fx' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so it&#39;s clearly a matter of taste. For myself, I find the Stanford Band tends a bit toward the self-indulgently iconoclastic\u00a0(sort of like the House GOP), but I can appreciate what they&#39;re striving toward vs. being Just One More Close Order Drill Unit.\u00a0 On the other hand, I admire good music and close order &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/01\/the-stanford-band.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Stanford Band&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131701,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/02\/pre-parade-drill.html","url_meta":{"origin":32014,"position":0},"title":"Pre-Parade Drill","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 2-Oct-16 12:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday was the AHS Homecoming Parade, which the band led. 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