{"id":4681,"date":"2018-03-18T13:18:58","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T13:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/03\/18\/bob-dylan-and-the-devil-at-the-crossroads\/"},"modified":"2018-03-18T13:18:58","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T13:18:58","slug":"bob-dylan-and-the-devil-at-the-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/03\/18\/bob-dylan-and-the-devil-at-the-crossroads\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Dylan and the Devil at the Crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Make of it<\/a> what you will. Did Dylan sell his soul to the devil for name and fame?<\/span><\/p>\n

As a Dylan aficionado since the early '60s, I can tell you that Dylan is never quite straight in an interview. He is a story-teller and shape-shifter. He is a legend in his own mind, but unlike most of us who are legends in our own minds, he has made of the legend in his mind a legend of his time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The man in me<\/a> will hide sometimes<\/span>
To keep from being seen.<\/span>
But that's just because he doesn't want<\/span>
To turn into some machine.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Could the author of Father of Day, Father of Night<\/a> have made a pact with the Prince of Darkness?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Make of it what you will. Did Dylan sell his soul to the devil for name and fame? As a Dylan aficionado since the early '60s, I can tell you that Dylan is never quite straight in an interview. He is a story-teller and shape-shifter. He is a legend in his own mind, but unlike … Continue reading “Bob Dylan and the Devil at the Crossroads”<\/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":[196,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-dylan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681","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=4681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}