{"id":10514,"date":"2011-07-23T18:25:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-23T18:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/23\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-amy-winehouse\/"},"modified":"2011-07-23T18:25:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-23T18:25:34","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-amy-winehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/23\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-amy-winehouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies:  Amy Winehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Amy Winehouse succumbed to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2011\/07\/23\/amy-winehouse-and-the-curse-of-27-2\/\" target=\"_self\">the curse of 27<\/a> today.&#0160; Why is 27 such an auspicious age for a quick exit from life&#39;s freeway?&#0160; My guess is that at 27 one is still too young&#0160; fully to appreciate the ravages to the body of l<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XgE-Oedaiyk\" target=\"_self\">ife in the fast lane<\/a>&#0160; but is old enough to have done irreparable damage, so much so that just one more snort, one more shot, one more binge pushes the self-abuser over the edge.&#0160; So 27 is a sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yd60nI4sa9A\" target=\"_self\">crossroads<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ludxpkyrab0\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a> is Winehouse singing the great Gerry Goffin-Carole King song, <em>Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow<\/em>?&#0160; But there never was and never will be a cover superior to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cbxxkwBQk_o\" target=\"_self\">Shirelle&#39;s 1961 version<\/a>.&#0160; I&#39;ve loved this song, in this version, ever since I first heard it in &#39;61.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m8KlYc0xG80\" target=\"_self\">Carole King&#39;s version<\/a> from her 1971 <em>Tapestry<\/em> album is also outstanding.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Winehouse succumbed to the curse of 27 today.&#0160; Why is 27 such an auspicious age for a quick exit from life&#39;s freeway?&#0160; My guess is that at 27 one is still too young&#0160; fully to appreciate the ravages to the body of life in the fast lane&#0160; but is old enough to have done &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/23\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-amy-winehouse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday Night at the Oldies:  Amy Winehouse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}