{"id":1201,"date":"2008-09-05T21:44:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T01:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2008-09-05T21:44:51","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T01:44:51","slug":"friday-night-music-rnc-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=1201","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Music-RNC edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am truly sick of writing about, nay, thinking about Sarah Palin. I am going to make a vow to avoid the topic for at least a week. It being Friday Night, I can avoid writing about anything, should I please, which is what I&#8217;m going to do, except to note in passing that John McCain&#8217;s speech, part of which I forced myself to watch, was more horrible than I could have hoped. He even did it in front of a blue screen, tailor made for another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/?p=1593\">Colbert challenge<\/a>, not to mention a turn in front of a huge p<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Talking-Points-Memo\/~3\/GvcBRB8gZG0\/213806.php\">icture of the Walter Reed Middle School<\/a>, looking suspiciously like an example of one of his many homes.<\/p>\n<p>Now, on to the music.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in the distant past I may have posted this song (but not this performance), a great piece of cultural reportage by Randy Newman, in which he summarizes the foreign policy of the Republicans quite well. This is the sort of thinking we&#8217;ve heard this week from the folks on the stage and the folks in the seats.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PGO42gvCSPI[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;m going to repeat anything on this feature, it might as well be Randy, one of our greatest songwriters. He&#8217;ll be in Northampton, MA at the end of the month, by the way, and I&#8217;m hoping to be there. If I make it, it will be the first concert I&#8217;ve seen since a Dylan\/Santana concert more than 10 years ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am truly sick of writing about, nay, thinking about Sarah Palin. I am going to make a vow to avoid the topic for at least a week. It being Friday Night, I can avoid writing about anything, should I please, which is what I&#8217;m going to do, except to note in passing that John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}