{"id":5237,"date":"2023-04-07T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T23:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5237"},"modified":"2023-04-06T18:04:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T16:04:19","slug":"john-prine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=5237","title":{"rendered":"John Prine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been three years.<\/p>\n<p>From the comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Will Cayemberg<br \/>\nOne of my coolest musical experiences involved this song. Long horrible divorce that very nearly ended me I ashamed to say. I began running at night in the dark on lonely country roads &#8220;trying to change the shape I was in&#8221; both physically and mentally. This song was in my ear buds most nights. Then I got a chance to see John in a tiny Manitowoc, Wi. theater and after a few songs I yelled out &#8220;Clay Pigeons&#8221; and he looked right at me and said &#8220;Yeah, I know that one.&#8221; The whole place cracked up. The next song he started Clay Pigeons and looked right at me and I yelled &#8220;Thank You.&#8221; I was thanking him for more than just a song request I think he helped me keep my sh#t together.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Mason<br \/>\nRest In Peace, John. Music won\u2019t be the same without you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"John Prine -- Clay Pigeons\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_3zNl6NsOyY?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><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been three years. From the comments: Will Cayemberg One of my coolest musical experiences involved this song. Long horrible divorce that very nearly ended me I ashamed to say. I began running at night in the dark on lonely country roads &#8220;trying to change the shape I was in&#8221; both physically and mentally. This song was in my ear buds most nights. Then I got a chance to see John in a tiny Manitowoc, Wi. theater and after a few songs I yelled out &#8220;Clay Pigeons&#8221; and he looked right at me and said &#8220;Yeah, I know that one.&#8221;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-104"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5239,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5237\/revisions\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}