{"id":49136,"date":"2016-07-18T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=49136"},"modified":"2016-07-26T14:50:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T18:50:43","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-headbangers-bookworms-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-knowledge-headbangers-bookworms-common\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge:  What Do Headbangers and Bookworms Have in Common?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/heavy-metal-rock-band?source=blog_uk_071816\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49143 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Heavy-Metal-Rock-Band-650.jpg\" alt=\"Heavy Metal Rock Band | UncommonGoods\" width=\"650\" height=\"285\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThere is nothing a heavy metal rocker loves more&#8211;after taking off his skull mask, corpse makeup, and studded leather bat wings&#8211;than curling up in a quiet corner with a good book. Or so one might think, considering the chosen names of some bands that consider \u201c11\u201d a reasonable sound volume.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Iron Maiden, for example, unlocked its name from the pages of <a href=\"http:\/\/central.gutenberg.org\/wplbn0002949514-man-in-the-iron-mask-the-by-dumas-alexandre.aspx?\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Man in the Iron Mask<\/em><\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexandre_Dumas\" target=\"_blank\">Alexandre Dumas<\/a>, while Black Sabbath was inspired by a novel from the British adventure writer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dennis_Wheatley\" target=\"_blank\">Dennis Wheatley<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/As_I_Lay_Dying\" target=\"_blank\"><em>As I Lay Dying<\/em><\/a> is an iconic novel by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Faulkner\" target=\"_blank\">William Faulkner<\/a>\u2014not to be confused with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/As_I_Lay_Dying_(band)\" target=\"_blank\">As I Lay Dying, the Christian metalcore band<\/a> from California. And <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Of_Mice_%26_Men_(band)\" target=\"_blank\">the band Of Mice and Men<\/a> takes its reference to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Steinbeck\" target=\"_blank\">John Steinbeck<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Of_Mice_and_Men\" target=\"_blank\">novella<\/a> seriously, addressing themes of the American Dream\u2014like playing a sweet riff on your <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gibson_Flying_V\" target=\"_blank\">Flying V<\/a> in front of tens of thousands of adoring fans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/product\/heavy-metal-rock-band?source=blog_uk_071816\" target=\"_blank\">Heavy Metal Rock Band<\/a> |\u00a0$48.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing a heavy metal rocker loves more&#8211;after taking off his skull mask, corpse makeup, and studded leather&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":49143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49136"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49513,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49136\/revisions\/49513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}