{"id":471,"date":"2018-04-15T22:27:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T02:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/?p=471"},"modified":"2018-04-15T22:27:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T02:27:47","slug":"billie-joe-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/2018\/04\/15\/billie-joe-armstrong\/","title":{"rendered":"BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by NORA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As children, we have a hero,<br \/>\nA role model, an inspiration.<br \/>\nWe need someone to dream about.<br \/>\nTo be without, what do we aspire<br \/>\nTo be? Mine was Billie Joe Armstrong.<br \/>\nMy hero from the start listening<br \/>\nTo Green Day, day-in, day-out.<br \/>\nGreen Day was my everything and Billie Joe, the centerpiece.<br \/>\nHe stood up for his views even when others didn\u2019t care.<br \/>\nHe\u2019s just as entitled to an opinion, and he used his voice unlike I ever could.<br \/>\nWhy stay quiet when you have an audience \u2014 people to listen, people who care<br \/>\nAnd actually consider what you have to say.<br \/>\nWhen you\u2019re a nobody like me few care<br \/>\nto hear me, but with an audience I could share it all.<br \/>\nSo I look up to him and hope some day I\u2019ll be the same<br \/>\nAs him, using my voice and music just like him to share<br \/>\nMy thoughts even when others don\u2019t care<br \/>\nBecause, like it or not, this is how I feel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by NORA<\/p>\n<p>As children, we have a hero,<br \/> A role model, an inspiration.<br \/> We need someone to dream about.<br \/> To be without, what do we aspire<br \/> To be? Mine was Billie Joe Armstrong.<br \/> My hero from the start listening<br \/> To Green Day, day-in, day-out.<br \/> Green Day was my [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":624,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/624"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/reverberations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}