{"id":1234,"date":"2007-09-28T08:55:29","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1234"},"modified":"2007-09-28T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:55:41","slug":"hensley-cant-quit-flogging-molly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1234","title":{"rendered":"Hensley Can&#8217;t Quit Flogging Molly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/mat.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/mat.jpg','popup','width=300,height=437,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/mat-tm.jpg\" height=\"145\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Mat\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s hard to keep a traveling according player tied down. Last January <strong>Matt Hensley<\/strong> announced that he was quitting the band <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floggingmolly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flogging Molly<\/a><\/strong> and was going to spend a little more time with his family in Carlsbad. He even bought <strong>Squid Joe&#8217;s<\/strong> and turned it into <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/hensleysflyingelephant\" target=\"_blank\">Hensley&#8217;s Flying Elephant Pub &#38; Grill<\/a><\/strong>. But now, with a new album in the works, it appears that the former pro skateboarder is getting back in the band.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Matt says of his return, &#8220;The truth is that my life makes sense again, and I feel like I&#8217;m where I need to be in this world.&#8221; He also ads, &#8220;I missed the feeling of &#8216;knowing where you&#8217;re at.&#8217; Being the accordion player in this band is my zone; where I belong. I got emails all the time from people who care deeply about the band. I missed being able to affect people in a positive way.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While we&#8217;re going to miss seeing him around Hensley&#8217;s, Flogging Molly fans around the world are going to be much happier that Matt has returned to the band.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skateboarding.com\/skate\/news\/article\/0,23271,1666299,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Transworld Skateboarding<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to keep a traveling according player tied down. Last January Matt Hensley announced that he was quitting the band Flogging Molly and was going to spend a little more time with his family in Carlsbad. He even bought Squid Joe&#8217;s and turned it into Hensley&#8217;s Flying Elephant Pub &#38; Grill. But now, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,23,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}