{"id":9575,"date":"2026-04-03T13:11:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=9575"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:11:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:11:41","slug":"good-friday-night-music-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=9575","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday Night Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019ve been doing this blog now for about 22 years, not writing as frequently as I used to, but every now and then. Lately it seems there\u2019s nothing to say, because the rot and corruption seems so obvious. Who ever thought we\u2019d see a day when George W. Bush would look good by comparison to any president?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, I feel absolutely obligated to continue the Good Friday tradition, though I must confess it\u2019s getting harder and harder to look on the bright side. Sure, it looks like the genius is crashing and burning, and it\u2019s nice to sea the folks, such as Noem and Bondi, who\u2019ve lined up to kiss his ass getting their own asses kicked from behind, but there\u2019s still no guarantee they won\u2019t steal the next election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, here it is, for the 22nd straight year or so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (Full Song) | Monty Python\u2019s Life of Brian (1979) | TCM\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uAzwji5Cfmk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been doing this blog now for about 22 years, not writing as frequently as I used to, but every now and then. Lately it seems there\u2019s nothing to say, because the rot and corruption seems so obvious. Who ever thought we\u2019d see a day when George W. Bush would look good by comparison to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-ramblings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575","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=9575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9576,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575\/revisions\/9576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}