{"id":4783,"date":"2018-02-10T18:01:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T18:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/10\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-gary-u-s-bonds\/"},"modified":"2018-02-10T18:01:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T18:01:44","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-gary-u-s-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/10\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-gary-u-s-bonds\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Gary U. S. Bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently discovered this masterful 1981 cover<\/a> of Jackson Browne's "The Pretender."<\/span><\/p>\n

I'm going to be a happy idiot <\/span>
And struggle for the legal tender<\/span>
Where the ads take aim and lay their claim<\/span>
To the heart and the soul of the spender<\/span>
And believe in whatever may lie
In those things that money can buy<\/span>
Though true love could have been a contender<\/span>
Are you there?<\/span>
Say a prayer for the Pretender<\/span>
Who started out so young and strong<\/span>
Only to surrender.<\/span><\/p>\n

And in case you missed it from a couple of weeks ago: From a Buick 6<\/a>.  <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently discovered this masterful 1981 cover of Jackson Browne's "The Pretender." I'm going to be a happy idiot And struggle for the legal tender Where the ads take aim and lay their claim To the heart and the soul of the spender And believe in whatever may lie In those things that money can … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Gary U. S. Bonds”<\/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-4783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783","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=4783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}