{"id":40573,"date":"2014-03-23T09:14:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T13:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40573"},"modified":"2014-03-23T09:19:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-23T13:19:15","slug":"a-brief-sunday-diversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40573","title":{"rendered":"A Brief Sunday Diversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some ideas are universal, and are just best said in music.\u00a0 And IMO, this is one I think we all can appreciate.<\/p>\n<p>I know I certainly can.\u00a0 Been there, done that &#8211; literally.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m5N9IHqqGcA\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, Cyndi Lauper and others &#8211; Pinmonkey and Celine Dion, to name two &#8211; have covered the tune, and have had hits with it.\u00a0 But it was written for Roy Orbison.<\/p>\n<p>Orbison recorded it in 1987.\u00a0Unfortunately, Orbison died of a heart attack the following year; his version wasn\u2019t released until 3+ years after his death.<\/p>\n<p>The other artists&#8217; versions are good.\u00a0 But IMO, Orbison\u2019s version is truly special &#8211; and is probably the least known of the batch.<\/p>\n<p>And none of them had Orbison&#8217;s incredible <em>voice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>RIP, &#8220;Big O&#8221;.\u00a0 We hardly knew ye when you passed early at 52.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some ideas are universal, and are just best said in music.\u00a0 And IMO, this is one &hellip; <a title=\"A Brief Sunday Diversion\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40573\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Brief Sunday Diversion<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40573","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}