{"id":1047,"date":"2022-02-15T20:38:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T01:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2025-09-12T20:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T00:16:49","slug":"friday-night-at-rockys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/?p=1047","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night at Rocky&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>people gonna run when the work week\u2019s done<br \/>\nbeen moiling and toiling for days<br \/>\ngotta loosen up gotta unwind I<br \/>\nthink I know the place<br \/>\nbeauty queens with holes in their jeans<br \/>\nmiddle-aged men in khakis<br \/>\nthere\u2019s zydeco on the patio<br \/>\non Friday night at Rocky\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>they got buffalo wings and onion rings<br \/>\na side of dirty little secrets, I hear<br \/>\nalligator pie with a glass of wine<br \/>\nor just a burger and a beer<br \/>\nsome folks come when they\u2019re getting none<br \/>\nsome folks come to watch hockey<br \/>\nsome folks come for the dynamo hum<br \/>\non Friday night at Rocky\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>coats and ties and college guys and<br \/>\ngals with fire engine hair<br \/>\nworking folks; heroes and goats<br \/>\neverybody\u2019s there<br \/>\nwith a baseball field down the street<br \/>\ngame day crowds get rowdy<br \/>\nbut it\u2019s a contact sport when the party starts<br \/>\non Friday night at Rocky\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>weekend comes, relax, have fun<br \/>\ncome inside find a seat<br \/>\nor stay on your feet there\u2019s no decree<br \/>\nno propriety<br \/>\ndiscretions aside, it\u2019s a magic carpet ride<br \/>\na little kitsch and I guess a little tacky but<br \/>\nlet your soul succumb to the dynamo hum<br \/>\non Friday night at Rocky\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; people gonna run when the work week\u2019s done been moiling and toiling for days gotta loosen up gotta unwind I think I know the place beauty queens with holes in their jeans middle-aged men in khakis there\u2019s zydeco on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/?p=1047\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,120,121],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyric-poems","tag-a-night-at-the-bar","tag-rockys-bar-and-grill","tag-the-neighborhood-watering-hole"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2K9yT-gT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rwmiller.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}