{"id":756,"date":"2024-05-24T11:19:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T11:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/24\/dylan-turns-83\/"},"modified":"2024-05-24T11:19:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T11:19:54","slug":"dylan-turns-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/24\/dylan-turns-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan Turns 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Scott Johnson of <em>Powerline<\/em> offers a couple of thoughtful retrospective pieces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2024\/05\/not-dark-yet-14.php\">Not Dark Yet<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.powerlineblog.com\/archives\/2024\/05\/chimes-of-freedom.php\">Chimes of Freedom<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Can one get tired of Dylan? That would be like getting tired of America. It would be like getting to the point where no passage in Kerouac brings a tingle to the spine or a tear to the eye, to the point where the earthly road ends and&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P1fSVbBwVX8\">forever young<\/a>&#0160;must give way to&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rm9coqlk8fY\">knocking on heaven&#39;s door<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">The scrawny Jewish kid from Hibbing Minnesota, son of an appliance salesman, was an unlikely bard, but bard he became. He&#39;s been at it a long, long time, and his body of work is as vast and as variegated as America herself. We old fans from way back who were with him from the beginning are still finding gems unheard as we ourselves enter the twilight where it&#39;s&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RZgBhyU4IvQ\">not dark yet<\/a>, but getting there. But it is a beautiful fade-out from a world that cannot last.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Thanks, Bob, it wouldn&#39;t have been the &#39;60s without you.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Johnson of Powerline offers a couple of thoughtful retrospective pieces. Not Dark Yet Chimes of Freedom Can one get tired of Dylan? That would be like getting tired of America. It would be like getting to the point where no passage in Kerouac brings a tingle to the spine or a tear to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/05\/24\/dylan-turns-83\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dylan Turns 83&#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":[196,167,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-dylan","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","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=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}