{"id":1637,"date":"2023-02-08T11:25:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T11:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/08\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-a-couple-of-taxi-tunes\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T11:25:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T11:25:16","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-a-couple-of-taxi-tunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/08\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-a-couple-of-taxi-tunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Harry Chapin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Excellent live version&#0160;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cDxF8RuaJ-Y\">&#0160;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c5dwksSbD34&amp;feature=related\">here<\/a>&#0160;by the late&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Chapin\">Harry Chapin<\/a> (1942-1981). I heard it the other day on the radio while driving and was reminded of what a great writer and performer he was.&#0160; The last verses are particularly moving:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">And she walked away in silence,<br \/>It&#39;s strange, how you never know,<br \/>But we&#39;d both gotten what we&#39;d asked for,<br \/>Such a long, long time ago.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">You see, she was gonna be an actress<br \/>And I was gonna learn to fly.<br \/>She took off to find the footlights,<br \/>And I took off for the sky.<br \/>And here, she&#39;s acting happy,<br \/>Inside her handsome home.<br \/>And me, I&#39;m flying in my taxi,<br \/>Taking tips, and getting stoned,<br \/>I go flying so high, when I&#39;m stoned.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent live version&#0160;&#0160;here&#0160;by the late&#0160;Harry Chapin (1942-1981). I heard it the other day on the radio while driving and was reminded of what a great writer and performer he was.&#0160; The last verses are particularly moving: And she walked away in silence,It&#39;s strange, how you never know,But we&#39;d both gotten what we&#39;d asked for,Such a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/08\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-a-couple-of-taxi-tunes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Remembering Harry Chapin&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","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=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}