{"id":70023,"date":"2017-01-29T07:30:01","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T12:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=70023"},"modified":"2017-01-29T08:21:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T13:21:15","slug":"two-from-mr-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70023","title":{"rendered":"Two From Mr. Z"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two by the late Warren Zevon.  They somehow seemed apropos for a cold winter Sunday morning.   <\/p>\n<p>The songs roughly \u201cbookend\u201d Zevon\u2019s popular music career.  The first is from his second album (the first one to see commercial success) in 1976.  The second is from his final album, released roughly 2 weeks before his death from cancer in 2003.  <\/p>\n<p>Both concern situations we\u2019ve all likely experienced, either directly or through observation of someone close.  If you&#8217;ve recently lost someone close, you might want to give the second tune a pass.  Ditto the first if you&#8217;re currently having issues with someone you care about.<\/p>\n<p>Should you choose to listen to either or both, you might want to have a tissue handy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q05wB6F1UMk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6dscsGRjpxk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Zevon was known for being one of popular music\u2019s out-of-control \u201cwild men\u201d during the 1970s, the era of &#8220;sex &#038; drugs &#038; rock &#038; roll&#8221;.  Much of his work then (and later) concerned harsh \u2013 and sometimes, dark \u2013 subjects.  But he was also an incredibly astute chronicler of the human condition.  <\/p>\n<p>And he was talented as hell.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Mr. Z.   Gone far too soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two by the late Warren Zevon. They somehow seemed apropos for a cold winter &hellip; <a title=\"Two From Mr. Z\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=70023\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two From Mr. Z<\/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-70023","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\/70023","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=70023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}