{"id":767,"date":"2008-02-26T13:37:52","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T13:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=767"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:33:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:33:50","slug":"song_of_the_day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/02\/song_of_the_day-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Gravedigger&#8221; &#8211; Willie Nelson <\/strong>(from Paste sampler #40, off his album &#8220;Moment of Truth&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Dude, he works &#8220;Ring Around the Rosie&#8221; into it; come on now. His voice is such a perfect combination of melodiousness and gravel. I <s>never<\/s>rarely* buy his albums but every once in awhile I come across a tune of his I love. He&#8217;s a better lyricist than I&#8217;ve heard him given credit for. <em>You should never have to bury your own babies.<\/em> And have you seen <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0088153\/\">Songwriter<\/a><\/strong>? Because I love EVERYTHING about that movie, including him, his acting, his singing, and his humor. But it&#8217;s one of those movies that I&#8217;m not sure anyone other than me and my Dad ever watched (Dad is a big Alan Rudolph fan).<\/p>\n<p><em>*I did buy one a few years ago, I think it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Teatro-Willie-Nelson\/dp\/B00000AFB6\/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1204055178&amp;sr=1-17\">this one<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Gravedigger&#8221; &#8211; Willie Nelson (from Paste sampler #40, off his album &#8220;Moment of Truth&#8221;) Dude, he works &#8220;Ring Around the Rosie&#8221; into it; come on now. His voice is such a perfect combination of melodiousness and gravel. I neverrarely* buy &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/02\/song_of_the_day-3.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,8,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-_of_the_xxx","category-dadreaction","category-flicks","category-listenin","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3901,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/3901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}