{"id":4914,"date":"2011-12-16T19:39:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T00:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2011-12-16T19:39:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T00:39:51","slug":"friday-night-music-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=4914","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, at first I figured I really should put up something Christhmasy, but then I remembered we liberals are waging war on Christmas, and anyway there&#8217;s one more Friday to go before the big day arrives. So I decided to stick to just regular music for one more week and do something seasonal next week, giving me one more week to find something that I haven&#8217;t put up in the past. There&#8217;s really not that many good videos of Christ as music that suit this feature.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnyway, I&#8217;ve been thinking about putting up Harry Nilsson, a somewhat unappreciated songwriter from the 60s. Here he&#8217;s singing what must have been his biggest hit, which was featured in <i>Midnight Cowboy<\/i>.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2AzEY6ZqkuE?fs=1&#038;hl=en_US&#038;border=0&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x666666&#038;color2=0xefefef\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/object>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAccording to the squibs on YouTube this is a live performance, and while I admit that he was alive at the time this was filmed, I&#8217;m not at all sure he was actually singing at the time. But I look over that, and waive my usual ban on lip syncing, because this is the best video of this song out there, and it really is a good song and deserves its moment of glory.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, at first I figured I really should put up something Christhmasy, but then I remembered we liberals are waging war on Christmas, and anyway there&#8217;s one more Friday to go before the big day arrives. So I decided to stick to just regular music for one more week and do something seasonal next week, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4914","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\/4914","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=4914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}