{"id":28469,"date":"2025-01-20T08:27:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T16:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=28469"},"modified":"2025-05-21T18:54:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T02:54:50","slug":"28469","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=28469","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AMERICAN TUNE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0OEWBq_jzuA?si=n8Q8rrjz_MECS0hj\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Paul Simon performed this song at the pre-inaugural concert for Jimmy Carter, held at the Kennedy Center, the evening before Carter&#8217;s swearing-in as president. That was a long time ago, and the signs were already there. By 2014, the die was cast. I hope today is not the last chapter in the book on America.   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-echochambers-27074746 \">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMERICAN TUNE Paul Simon performed this song at the pre-inaugural concert for Jimmy Carter, held at the Kennedy Center, the evening before Carter&#8217;s swearing-in as president. That was a long time ago, and the signs were already there. By 2014, the die was cast. I hope today is not the last chapter in the book &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=28469\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28469"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28929,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28469\/revisions\/28929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}