{"id":1905,"date":"2015-03-01T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2015-03-01T19:36:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T03:36:41","slug":"folk-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1905","title":{"rendered":"Folk Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was lucky enough to live through the era of folk songs and learned thousands of songs, folk songs, kids\u2019 songs, ballads, funny songs, rounds, Broadway tunes, etc. <a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/folksinger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"folksinger\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"folksinger\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/folksinger_thumb.jpg\" width=\"589\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the cartoon strip portrays an old geezer in a nursing home, most of the old geezers I know are independent! They live on farms, are still working, and or doing lots of activities in retirement communities. We held song fests in my homes. In the early 1960s we called them \u201chootenannies!\u201d (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blatner.com\/adam\/level2\/sing4fun.htm\">Singing for the Fun of It<\/a> on my website.) Some songs are painfully dated, singing of social norms in courtship and other things that kids today wouldn\u2019t get at all; but some sing of \u201cmoonlight and love songs, never out of date\u201d\u2014archetypes of life that are hardly time-bound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was lucky enough to live through the era of folk songs and learned thousands of songs, folk songs, kids\u2019 songs, ballads, funny songs, rounds, Broadway tunes, etc. Although the cartoon strip portrays an old geezer in a nursing home, most of the old geezers I know are independent! They live on farms, are still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-foolin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/1906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}