{"id":7261,"date":"2015-04-04T18:25:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-04T18:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/04\/holy-saturday-night-at-the-oldies-religious-themes\/"},"modified":"2015-04-04T18:25:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T18:25:58","slug":"holy-saturday-night-at-the-oldies-religious-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/04\/holy-saturday-night-at-the-oldies-religious-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Saturday Night at the Oldies: Religious Themes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Herewith, five definite decouplings of rock and roll from sex and drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Norman Greenbaum, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WPPlGFh6OpQ\" target=\"_self\">Spirit in the Sky<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Johnny Cash, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jQcNiD0Z3MU\" target=\"_self\">Personal Jesus.<\/a> This is one powerful song.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Clapton and Winwood, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=98XqT4kBWT4&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_self\">Presence of the Lord.<\/a> Why is Clapton such a great guitarist? 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Norman Greenbaum, Spirit in the Sky Johnny Cash, Personal Jesus. This is one powerful song. Clapton and Winwood, Presence of the Lord. Why is Clapton such a great guitarist? Not because of his technical virtuosity, his &#39;chops,&#39; but because he has something to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/04\/04\/holy-saturday-night-at-the-oldies-religious-themes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Holy Saturday Night at the Oldies: Religious Themes&#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":[18,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261","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=7261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}