{"id":22893,"date":"2011-04-10T07:45:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T11:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22893"},"modified":"2011-04-11T13:50:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T17:50:22","slug":"er-um-mumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22893","title":{"rendered":"Er, um, mumble&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2011\/04\/10\/bob-dylan-rock-vietnam-special-concert\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Dylan to rock Vietnam in special concert.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The iconic American folk singer and  songwriter was set to play a special concert in the former Saigon on  Sunday evening, where he&#8217;s expected to belt out some of his classic  anti-war tunes, nearly 36 years after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/topics\/politics\/vietnam-war.htm#r_src=ramp\">Vietnam War<\/a> ended.<\/p>\n<p>Dylan&#8217;s  music during that tumultuous era helped define a generation, touching  thousands of young people who took to the streets demanding that  Washington stop the war in Vietnam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe he&#8217;ll have Jane Fonda as a go-go dancer too?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Added<\/strong>:\u00a0 Rather than attempt to reply in the comments, I choose to amplify here.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever Dylan&#8217;s personal beliefs might have been a fact is that some of his music became anti-war anthems. However, much a like a gun and it&#8217;s wielder, there can be a disconnect of note.\u00a0 He DID have the option of standing up and decrying their use had he chose to do so.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Come you masters of war<br \/>\nYou that build the big guns<br \/>\nYou that build the death planes<br \/>\nYou that build all the bombs<br \/>\nYou that hide behind walls<br \/>\nYou that hide behind desks<br \/>\nI just want you to know<br \/>\nI can see through your masks.<\/p>\n<p>You that never done nothin&#8217;<br \/>\nBut build to destroy<br \/>\nYou play with my world<br \/>\nLike it&#8217;s your little toy<br \/>\nYou put a gun in my hand<br \/>\nAnd you hide from my eyes<br \/>\nAnd you turn and run farther<br \/>\nWhen the fast bullets fly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Dylan to rock Vietnam in special concert. The iconic American folk singer and songwriter was &hellip; <a title=\"Er, um, mumble&#8230;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22893\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Er, um, mumble&#8230;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,5,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-politics","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}