{"id":3768,"date":"2015-11-30T13:38:16","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T20:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=3768"},"modified":"2015-11-30T13:39:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T20:39:37","slug":"bruce-stipe-mellencamp-matthews-more-and-farewell-nablopomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/30\/bruce-stipe-mellencamp-matthews-more-and-farewell-nablopomo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce, Stipe, Mellencamp, Matthews &#038; More (and Farewell NABLOPOMO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MpK8Z2vOvAo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Consider this post a public service announcement.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re ending this month with so much sadness and bad news\u00a0and\u00a0facing an election year sure to bring much more. SO instead of\u00a0the long NABLOPOMO meditation I&#8217;d planned I offer you the last song from <em><strong>the best concert I have<\/strong><\/em> <strong><em>ever been to IN MY LIFE<\/em><\/strong>, not just because this amazing lineup* (it was almost too much to absorb,) but because it\u00a0existed to serve the 2004 Democratic ticket as John Kerry challenged George Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah I know he lost, but the song &#8211; this song &#8211; written by Patti Smith, still helps to remind us today of the task that lies before us. \u00a0&#8220;The People Have the Power.&#8221; \u00a0We, the people, need to do all we can to protect our rights and fight to revive those stolen from us: \u00a0the Voting Rights Act, the terrible assaults on women&#8217;s healthcare providers, especially Planned Parenthood, racial injustice and pain beyond describing, xenophobia and hate speech from those who would lead us. \u00a0We can&#8217;t afford to lose.<\/p>\n<p>So, enjoy the music and take it to heart, then remember for the next year that those people who have the power?<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Babyface,\u00a0Bonnie Raitt,\u00a0Bruce Springsteen,\u00a0Dave Matthews Band,\u00a0Dixie Chicks,\u00a0Eddie Vedder,\u00a0Jackson Browne,\u00a0James Taylor,\u00a0John Fogerty,\u00a0John Mellencamp,\u00a0Jurassic 5,\u00a0Keb&#8217; Mo&#8217;,\u00a0Pearl Jam,\u00a0R.E.M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider this post a public service announcement. We&#8217;re ending this month with so much sadness and bad news\u00a0and\u00a0facing an election year sure to bring much more. SO instead of\u00a0the long NABLOPOMO meditation I&#8217;d planned I offer you the last song from the best concert I have ever been to IN MY LIFE, not just because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/30\/bruce-stipe-mellencamp-matthews-more-and-farewell-nablopomo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bruce, Stipe, Mellencamp, Matthews &#038; More (and Farewell NABLOPOMO)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2877,27,8,1917],"tags":[2812,2892,3622,1275,189,3629,3425,3623,1402,1279,166,3630,3624,3625,1271,1270,3626,10,3421,2085,3627,3628,3631,1259],"class_list":["post-3768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microblogmonday-2","category-current-affairs","category-music","category-nablopomo","tag-microblogmonday","tag-microblogmondays","tag-babyface","tag-bonnie-raitt","tag-bruce-springsteen","tag-campaign-2004","tag-campaign-2016","tag-dave-matthews-band","tag-dixie-chicks","tag-eddie-vedder","tag-elections","tag-hope","tag-jackson-browne","tag-james-taylor","tag-john-fogerty","tag-john-mellencamp","tag-jurassic-5-keb-mo","tag-music-2","tag-nablopomo","tag-patti-smith","tag-pearl-jam","tag-r-e-m","tag-the-people-have-the-power","tag-vote-for-change"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-YM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}