{"id":522,"date":"2015-12-10T16:35:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T16:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abluntstop.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2015-12-10T16:35:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T16:35:59","slug":"metal-mans-misconception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abluntstop.com\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"Metal Man&#8217;s Misconception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-235\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abluntstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/metalmanMisconception-1024x475.jpg\" alt=\"metalmanMisconception\" width=\"584\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was the last band I discovered while I was attending Bryant HS, 13 years ago. I think. I was searching for Viking Metal and Waitain came up. I thought they were bad ass but never got around to it. Kinda what happened with Gamma Ray (man that&#8217;s gonna have to be a whole other comic). Anyway many years go by and like a year ago they were on TMZ, showering people with blood. I see upside down crosses, candles, goats and bones. A change of faith? Then it hit me, I am an idiot. When the Christians were spreading the faith to the Pagans north of European tribes, \u00a0the deities themselves were demonized by the Christians (maybe Catholics? What do I know). So these tribes used to dress up like demons, make sacrifices , cover themselves in blood; just to scare the Christians away from Crom.<\/p>\n<p>This is all speculation, obviously I am not a bad ass archaeologist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was the last band I discovered while I was attending Bryant HS, 13 years ago. I think. I was searching for Viking Metal and Waitain came up. I thought they were bad ass but never got around to it. Kinda what happened with Gamma Ray (man that&#8217;s gonna have to be a whole other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[98,101,110,123,148,352,353,354,398,550,552],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-metal-man","tag-blunt-stop-comics","tag-bryant-high-school","tag-cartoon-strip","tag-christian-f-cortes","tag-concert","tag-metal","tag-metal-comics","tag-metal-culture","tag-pagan","tag-viking-metal","tag-waitain","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abluntstop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abluntstop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abluntstop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abluntstop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abluntstop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abluntstop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abluntstop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abluntstop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abluntstop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}