{"id":31875,"date":"2012-09-04T09:33:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T13:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31875"},"modified":"2012-09-04T09:34:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T13:34:57","slug":"trace-adkins-tough-people-do-gop-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31875","title":{"rendered":"Trace Adkins&#8217; &#8220;Tough People Do&#8221; to become GOP anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trace Adkins&#8217; latest song &#8220;Tough People Do&#8221; (as in &#8220;Tough times don&#8217;t last, tough people do&#8221;) which he performed at the GOP convention last week is headed to become the anthem for the GOP this election season. Here&#8217;s a video of his first performance of the song;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-sxxIdc7vP8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/music\/news\/story\/2012-08-30\/trace-adkins-republican-convention\/57439034\/1\">USAToday<\/a>; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The song&#8217;s three verses look at economic difficulties from historical, national and personal perspectives. In the song&#8217;s first verse, a woman raises four kids through the Great Depression, then outlasts that era by 60 years. The depiction reminded Adkins of his grandmother, who died at age 92.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My grandma was the toughest old woman that I ever saw in my life,&#8221; he says. &#8220;She&#8217;d still work in the garden with an old push-plow until she was in her late 70s. Just the toughest old woman that I ever knew and, at the same time, the godliest creature that I ever knew.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the point of this song. That&#8217;s what we have in our DNA. That&#8217;s what we come from. That&#8217;s who we are. That&#8217;s what this country needs to be reminded of. We still have the wherewithal, still have the muscle to straighten out this incredibly twisted frame that we&#8217;re driving on.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His press agent tells us that the song will be available soon on iTunes (whatever that is). Luckily they sent me an MP3 so I&#8217;m already rockin&#8217; to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trace Adkins&#8217; latest song &#8220;Tough People Do&#8221; (as in &#8220;Tough times don&#8217;t last, tough people do&#8221;) &hellip; <a title=\"Trace Adkins&#8217; &#8220;Tough People Do&#8221; to become GOP anthem\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31875\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trace Adkins&#8217; &#8220;Tough People Do&#8221; to become GOP anthem<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitt-romneypaul-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31875","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}