{"id":40605,"date":"2020-08-01T15:30:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T22:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=40605"},"modified":"2020-08-01T15:30:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T22:30:37","slug":"something-to-tide-us-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/01\/something-to-tide-us-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Something to Tide Us Over &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;ll have to be &#8220;Sunday Smile&#8221; &#8211; but in the meantime, a tidbit to tide us over.<\/p>\n<p>I had hearing back in 1999 &#8211; so I&#8217;m able to remember the tune (and words) from Don McLean&#8217;s wildly popular <em><strong>&#8220;American Pie&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This version has been updated with the Founding Fathers as concerned choristers:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE DAY DEMOCRACY DIED - by Founders Sing with Don McLean &amp; Founding Fathers\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Ue5F57dZMU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;ll have to be &#8220;Sunday Smile&#8221; &#8211; but in the meantime, a tidbit to tide us over. I had hearing back in 1999 &#8211; so I&#8217;m able to remember the tune (and words) from Don McLean&#8217;s wildly popular &#8220;American Pie&#8221;. This version has been updated with the Founding Fathers as concerned choristers:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}