{"id":4189,"date":"2011-08-14T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2014-07-04T14:02:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T18:02:46","slug":"sunday-afternoon-musical-interlude-josh-thompson-way-out-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/14\/sunday-afternoon-musical-interlude-josh-thompson-way-out-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Afternoon Musical Interlude: Josh Thompson &#8211; Way Out Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned on twitter not long ago that if you didn&#8217;t understand the philosophical meaning of this song then we have nothing to talk about&#8230; It isn&#8217;t about living out in the sticks, it&#8217;s about an attitude, about a way life. It&#8217;s about being self-reliant, working hard, and making your own way world instead of living off the efforts of someone else. If you don&#8217;t understand that or don&#8217;t see the virtue in that, then we really don&#8217;t have anything to talk about.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"595\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D0sYnro_3Rc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAmericanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood\u2014the virtues that made America. The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Theodore Roosevelt<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned on twitter not long ago that if you didn&#8217;t understand the philosophical meaning of this song then we have nothing to talk about&#8230; It isn&#8217;t about living out in the sticks, it&#8217;s about an attitude, about a way life. It&#8217;s about being self-reliant, working hard, and making your own way world instead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"content-sidebar","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[187],"tags":[1207],"class_list":["post-4189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music","tag-josh-thompson","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfpI7-15z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13443,"url":"https:\/\/www.jasetaro.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/20\/americanism\/","url_meta":{"origin":4189,"position":0},"title":"Americanism","author":"Jeff","date":"April 20, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u2019ve been thinking about this quote from our 26th President Teddy Roosevelt a lot recently: \u201cAmericanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood\u2014the virtues that made America. 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