{"id":84869,"date":"2019-02-09T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=84869"},"modified":"2019-02-08T20:24:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T00:24:16","slug":"makin-movies-of-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=84869","title":{"rendered":"Makin&#8217; Movies of Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We give Hollywood (and much of the rest of the entertainment industry) well-deserved grief for generally being a bunch of self-centered left-leaning j-holes unconcerned with reality.   But that&#8217;s hardly unique to today; we\u2019re hardly the first to do so.  It&#8217;s been obvious for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Give this a listen if you like \u2013  it was released <u>more than 45 years ago<\/u>.  IMO the late Walter Becker and Donald Fagen had them pegged.  <i>(<u>Fair warning<\/u>:  the lyrics contain a single occurrence of a word that is generally considered highly NSFW\/around prudes, children or clergy at approximately 3:54.  Consider this and your environment if you choose to listen.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FjTEhT30vM0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d probably have found Becker and Fagen too far left for my taste politically as acquaintances.  But the duo were perceptive indeed.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still kicking myself for not seeing Steely Dan in a small venue when I had the chance 3 or 4 years ago &#8211; while Becker was still on this side of the dirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We give Hollywood (and much of the rest of the entertainment industry) well-deserved grief for generally &hellip; <a title=\"Makin&#8217; Movies of Themselves\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=84869\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Makin&#8217; Movies of Themselves<\/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-84869","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\/84869","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=84869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}