{"id":6067,"date":"2005-02-23T13:34:49","date_gmt":"2005-02-23T18:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2005\/02\/23\/korn-guitarist-gets-religion-leaves-band\/"},"modified":"2005-02-23T13:34:49","modified_gmt":"2005-02-23T18:34:49","slug":"korn-guitarist-gets-religion-leaves-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2005\/02\/korn-guitarist-gets-religion-leaves-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Korn guitarist gets religion, leaves band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">A religious awakening has prompted Korn guitarist Brian &quot;Head&quot; Welch to leave the powerhouse U.S. rock band, Billboard.com reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Welch told KRAB-FM, Bakersfield, Calif., he would be at a local church Sunday to explain his departure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;I had it in my heart to come here and explain to you,&quot; Welch said. &quot;I&#8217;m good friends with Korn. I love those guys, and they love me, and they&#8217;re very happy for me.&quot; [<a href=\"http:\/\/pittsburghlive.com\/x\/tribune-review\/entertainment\/s_306771.html\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>I use to listen to Korn prior to my conversion. They even appeard on a recent episode of Monk. Their lyrics are laced with profanity and I stopped making excuses to continue to listen to them. I even use to play some of their songs on my guitar. It does make me wonder how many head-banging and Gregorian Chant loving traditionalist like me are out there?<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\"><font color=\"#FF0000\">Update<\/font>: Michelle Malkin has <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/archives\/001580.htm\">a little more info<\/a> on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A religious awakening has prompted Korn guitarist Brian &quot;Head&quot; Welch to leave the powerhouse U.S. rock band, Billboard.com reported Wednesday. Welch told KRAB-FM, Bakersfield, Calif., he would be at a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}