{"id":85,"date":"2012-04-21T13:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T20:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/?p=85"},"modified":"2012-05-30T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T22:59:00","slug":"songs-i-never-get-tired-of-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Songs I Never Get Tired Of #22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><object width=\"320\" height=\"266\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wYFfuVzQPn4&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds\" \/><embed width=\"320\" height=\"266\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wYFfuVzQPn4&amp;fs=1&amp;source=uds\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Beg, Steal or Borrow<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">By Ray LaMontagne<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I have my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/kolive.blogspot.ca\/\">Kyria<\/a> to thank for introducing me to this incredibly talented alt-country (y&#8217;allternative) artist. It&#8217;s often difficult for me to explain to people who don&#8217;t like country music why he&#8217;s so good, and how exactly he&#8217;s different from the kind of pop-country you hear on country music radio stations. Suffice it to say that the lyrics are less about trucks\/boy-meets-girl\/getting cheated on&#8230;and often about subject matter that requires a bit of introspection after you listen to it.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Like &#8216;Beg, Steal or Borrow&#8217;, for example. Never has a song so perfectly captured the restless feeling of growing up in a small town and wanting, <em>pining<\/em>\u00a0desperately for an escape.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Other good examples include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zPdNuomOFB4&amp;feature=relmfu\">&#8216;Are We Really Through&#8217;<\/a>, which got me through a depressing and lonely winter (yes, depressing songs help when I&#8217;m depressed) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rIUSikXex5w\">&#8216;Empty&#8217;<\/a>, which has brutally honest lyrics and a driving, haunting sound.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">If you think you don&#8217;t like country music, give Ray LaMontagne a listen just to make sure.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beg, Steal or Borrow By Ray LaMontagne I have my friend Kyria to thank for introducing me to this incredibly talented alt-country (y&#8217;allternative) artist. It&#8217;s often difficult for me to explain to people who don&#8217;t like country music why he&#8217;s so good, and how exactly he&#8217;s different from the kind of pop-country you hear on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-songs-i-never-get-tired-of"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesfunfer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}