{"id":2906,"date":"2023-07-14T09:31:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T21:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2023-07-14T09:31:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T21:31:25","slug":"born-to-be-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2906","title":{"rendered":"Born To Be Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week in 1969 The cult classic\u00a0<em>Easy Rider<\/em> opened in theaters. The movie&#8217;s opening scenes are accompanied by the &#8220;heavy metal thunder&#8221; of Steppenwolf&#8217;s  <em>Born To Be Wild<\/em>. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper star as motorcycle-riding free spirits who travel through the\u00a0American Southwest\u00a0and\u00a0South, carrying the proceeds from a\u00a0cocaine\u00a0deal. The songs that make up the soundtrack were carefully selected to form a &#8220;musical commentary&#8221; within the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Easy Rider - Intro - Born to be wild!\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J1cDECkN2xg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in 1969 The cult classic\u00a0Easy Rider opened in theaters. The movie&#8217;s opening scenes are accompanied by the &#8220;heavy metal thunder&#8221; of Steppenwolf&#8217;s Born To Be Wild. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper star as motorcycle-riding free spirits who travel through the\u00a0American Southwest\u00a0and\u00a0South, carrying the proceeds from a\u00a0cocaine\u00a0deal. The songs that make up the soundtrack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[316,317],"class_list":["post-2906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-easy-rider","tag-steppenwolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2907,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions\/2907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}