{"id":767,"date":"2015-03-29T22:57:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T05:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=767"},"modified":"2015-04-01T12:51:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T19:51:21","slug":"folk-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Folk Metal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got tickets to see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slimspresents.com\/events\/2015-05-07\/ensiferum-korpiklaani\/\" title=\"TrollfesT at Slim's\" target=\"_blank\">Korpiklaani, Einsiferum, and TrollfesT in May<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>When I was in college, I was really into folk metal. Like, really into it. As an extension of this, I also got into a few troll metal bands.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always really liked Korpiklaani, but I have never actually seen them live, so I am pretty excited about this show. Shame I didn&#8217;t get around to seeing them before they had to replace Jaakko (their violinist) due to health issues.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, just look at this guy in the Wooden Pints video:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OIc4VHxU7iM\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I cannot stop watching that video, by-the-way. It is so&#8230; nonsensical. And bad. And for this, I love it.<\/p>\n<p>My synopsis: A man hacks into a stump with a hatchet. Another man pops out of an outhouse and starts playing a violin on his hip. He then periodically teleports back and forth between the outhouse and another location where the rest of the band is, including a man wailing on a single drum with a large branch. What is happening??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got tickets to see Korpiklaani, Einsiferum, and TrollfesT in May! When I was in college, I was really into folk metal. Like, really into it. As an extension of this, I also got into a few troll metal bands. I&#8217;ve always really liked Korpiklaani, but I have never actually seen them live, so I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=767\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Folk Metal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}