{"id":54130,"date":"2017-02-26T08:01:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T08:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=54130"},"modified":"2017-02-26T08:01:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T08:01:44","slug":"sunday-surprise-ballad-of-the-skeletons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=54130","title":{"rendered":"Sunday surprise &#8211; Ballad of The Skeletons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; Ginsberg, McCartney &#038; Philip Glass! ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a huge <strong>Ginsberg <\/strong>fan, but this seems like a wholesome follow up to yesterdays post <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=54122\">6,000 years and still together<\/a> &#8212; written by Ginsberg in the run up to the United States presidential election of 1996, and touching on several themes of continuing interest today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZdvM0IB5Sbs?ecver=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can follow along <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/allen-ginsberg-ballad-skeletons\/\">the text here<\/a>, and read-all-about-it in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/04\/the_ballad_of_the_skeletons_allen_ginsbergs_1996_collaboration_with_philip_glass_and_paul_mccartney.html\">\u2018The Ballad of the Skeletons\u2019: Allen Ginsberg\u2019s 1996 Collaboration with Philip Glass and Paul McCartney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I&#8217;m not a great fan of <strong>McCartney<\/strong> either, but the pair of them together seems like an oxymoron.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; Ginsberg, McCartney &#038; Philip Glass! ] . I&#8217;m not a huge Ginsberg fan, but this seems like a wholesome follow up to yesterdays post 6,000 years and still together &#8212; written by Ginsberg in the run up to the United States presidential election of 1996, and touching on several themes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,1349,415,480,741,187,946,1,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-death","category-elections","category-music","category-poetry","category-politics","category-sunday-surprise","category-uncategorized","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54130"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54139,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54130\/revisions\/54139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}