{"id":4673,"date":"2016-10-13T16:22:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T23:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/?p=4673"},"modified":"2016-10-13T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T23:29:17","slug":"in-honor-of-bob-and-his-nobel-reposting-bob-dylan-and-the-tambourine-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/13\/in-honor-of-bob-and-his-nobel-reposting-bob-dylan-and-the-tambourine-man\/","title":{"rendered":"IN HONOR OF BOB AND HIS NOBEL: REPOSTING Bob Dylan and the Tambourine Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nCongratulations Bob!  I first published this on his birthday:<\/em><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan turned 75 yesterday.  Spotify and I are honoring him this morning, playing one masterpiece (When I Paint My\u2026) after another.   Just now, up came Mr. Tambourine Man*.  I felt myself driving through Pittsburgh\u2019s Liberty Tubes with the music as loud as it could get in a Corvair, singing and dreaming; hoping for a fraction of the vision and gift he offered us.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m five years and three days younger.  He belongs to me.  He spoke to me then and he still does.  Then it was hope and there\u2019s lots of that to this day.  Today, though, it\u2019s tempered with the knowledge and experience gained in the 51 years lived since the song appeared on Bringin\u2019 It All Back Home<\/a>.  All the dreams and disappointment, the innocence and the learning, the love and the pain.  It\u2019s all here:<\/p>\n

Then take me disappearin\u2019 through the smoke rings of my mind
\nDown the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves
\nThe haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach
\nFar from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow
\nYes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free
\nSilhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands
\nWith all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves
\nLet me forget about today until tomorrow<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More than the brilliant political songs that became anthems for all of us, this one remains in my heart.  Happy birthday Bob.
\n*Played 15 million times on Spotify alone\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Congratulations Bob!  I first published this on his birthday: Bob Dylan turned 75 yesterday.  Spotify and I are honoring him this morning, playing one masterpiece (When I Paint My\u2026) after another.   Just now, up came Mr. Tambourine Man*.  I felt myself driving through Pittsburgh\u2019s Liberty Tubes with the music as loud as it could … Continue reading IN HONOR OF BOB AND HIS NOBEL: REPOSTING Bob Dylan and the Tambourine Man<\/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":[2,3799,3,4,6,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","category-3799","category-aging","category-baby-boom","category-culture","category-music","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-1dn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673","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=4673"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4677,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4673\/revisions\/4677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}