{"id":7072,"date":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-contentedness-of-a-rock-legend\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:18:40","slug":"the-contentedness-of-a-rock-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-contentedness-of-a-rock-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"The Contentedness of A Rock Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great influence on young people today is Rock music.  Perhaps the most successful group of the last 35 years has been the Rolling Stones.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the 1960&#8217;s they made $350 million and blew it.  They still make a bundle, but invest it in fine silver, modern art and European mansions.  Mick Jagger, the leader of the group, is now 50 years old. [in 1992?]  While sipping Napolean brandy in an expensive French restaurant, he told a reporter:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now I&#8217;m happy.  Eating a nice meal without pressure.  To an old-fashioned existentialist, that&#8217;s all that counts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While he said this, a diamond set in his front tooth flashed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great influence on young people today is Rock music. Perhaps the most successful group of the last 35 years has been the Rolling Stones. Back in the 1960&#8217;s they made $350 million and blew it. They still make a bundle, but invest it in fine silver, modern art and European mansions. Mick Jagger, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3938,2348,776,4942,4505,4941],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}