{"id":5449,"date":"2012-02-12T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5449"},"modified":"2012-02-12T21:09:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T05:09:41","slug":"unclear-on-the-concept-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5449","title":{"rendered":"Unclear on the Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5008\" title=\"userpic=nixon\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicnixon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"76\" height=\"100\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>As I often do on the weekends, I&#8217;m recording LPs to my iPod. Yesterday, in the thrift store, I picked up the album &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhymes_%26_Reasons_%28John_Denver_album%29\">Rhymes and Reasons<\/a>&#8220;, John Denver&#8217;s 1969 debut album. On this song are two very political songs: (1) &#8220;The Ballad of Spiro Agnew&#8221; by Tom Paxton, which is simply &#8220;I&#8217;ll sing of Spiro Agnew, and all the things he&#8217;s done.&#8221; (and the song ends)&#8230; and (2) &#8220;The Ballad of Richard Nixon&#8221;, which is just 5 seconds of silence. But this doesn&#8217;t deter Amazon or others. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Ballad-Of-Richard-Nixon\/dp\/B0013D4WTS\">Amazon is willing to sell you a 5-second silent track for 99c<\/a>. Do a search for it, and you&#8217;ll find sites willing to let you download the track as a ring-tone (I don&#8217;t imagine it would be very effective), or that purport to be the lyrics to the song.<\/p>\n<p>My quandry: Should I be an ideological purist and put the track on my iPod?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Music<\/strong>: <em>Rhymes and Reasons<\/em> (John Denver): (You Dun Stomped) On My Heart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I often do on the weekends, I&#8217;m recording LPs to my iPod. Yesterday, in the thrift store, I picked up the album &#8220;Rhymes and Reasons&#8220;, John Denver&#8217;s 1969 debut album. On this song are two very political songs: (1) &#8220;The Ballad of Spiro Agnew&#8221; by Tom Paxton, which is simply &#8220;I&#8217;ll sing of Spiro <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5449\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364],"tags":[24,131],"class_list":["post-5449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-music","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5453,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions\/5453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}