{"id":87375,"date":"2024-04-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87375"},"modified":"2024-04-18T08:01:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T13:01:19","slug":"call-on-line-5-from-the-dixie-chicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87375","title":{"rendered":"Call On Line 5 From The Dixie Chicks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John Mellencamp, who turned his real-life persona &#8211; &#8220;an American kid who grew up in the Heartland&#8221; &#8211; into his show-biz persona, is shocked that other American kids from the heartland aren&#8217;t having his Los Angeles politics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thoughts &amp; prayers going out to all <br>the people just now finding out John Mellencamp can be insufferable live.<br>When he\u2019s wearing the onesie and starts telling stories\u2026 Just head for the exit.<br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PJ2lUuuvQB\">pic.twitter.com\/PJ2lUuuvQB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Michael Loftus (@MikeLoftusComic) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeLoftusComic\/status\/1780282005109801202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Love the art, ignore the artist&#8221; is an aphorism that&#8217;s served me well over the years.  <em>Uh Huh, Scarecrow <\/em>and <em>Lonesome Jubilee <\/em>were three of the best albums of the 1980s, especially for another  &#8220;American kid growing up in the heartland&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As to Mellencamp&#8217;s politics getting rejected?   To cite the sage, there is indeed &#8220;no free ride.  Nobody said it&#8217;d be easy&#8221;.  Some guys put you in your place.  Some day hopefully we can look back and remember when. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mellencamp, who turned his real-life persona &#8211; &#8220;an American kid who grew up in the Heartland&#8221; &#8211; into his show-biz persona, is shocked that other American kids from the heartland aren&#8217;t having his Los Angeles politics: &#8220;Love the art, ignore the artist&#8221; is an aphorism that&#8217;s served me well over the years. Uh Huh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-fragility","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87387,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87375\/revisions\/87387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}