{"id":2020,"date":"2009-01-23T20:22:04","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T01:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2009-01-23T20:22:09","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T01:22:09","slug":"friday-night-music-don-mclean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=2020","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Music-Don McLean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both\">One of the weirder moments in the Inaugural concert was Garth Brooks singing &#8220;American Pie&#8221;. He chose to stick to the chorus and didn&#8217;t sing the verses. It&#8217;s an odd song, to say the least, to sing at a concert that is delivering a message of hope and optimism. The song does neither. It reminds me of Republicans using Springsteen&#8217;s <em>Born in the USA<\/em> as a patriotic anthem. Doesn&#8217;t anyone listen to lyrics? Anyway, Brooks&#8217; performance at least gave me an idea for a Friday Night song. I suppose this song has become a bit of a cliche, but I like it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\"><span style=\" display: inline; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;\"><object height=\"307\" width=\"380\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iMlzfpwJZuc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iMlzfpwJZuc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1<\/a>&#8220;><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/span><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the weirder moments in the Inaugural concert was Garth Brooks singing &#8220;American Pie&#8221;. He chose to stick to the chorus and didn&#8217;t sing the verses. It&#8217;s an odd song, to say the least, to sing at a concert that is delivering a message of hope and optimism. The song does neither. It reminds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}