{"id":958,"date":"2004-09-25T19:22:28","date_gmt":"2004-09-25T23:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=958"},"modified":"2004-09-25T19:22:28","modified_gmt":"2004-09-25T23:22:28","slug":"ancient-prophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"Ancient prophet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"sane\"> &#8220;I&#8216;m sure there are plenty of great young songwriters working out there now and yes, I really hate them&#8221;.<\/span> From a rather wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosebudus.com\/wainwright\/LiteraryFes.html\">talk<\/a> by Loudon Wainwright.<\/p>\n\n<p>Jim White went to interview him once for the <em>Independent,<\/em> in Leeds, or somewhere like that. &#8220;Don&#8217;t you think that your songs are a little bit depressing about the war between the sexes?&#8221; he asked.<br \/>\n&#8220;Are you married, Jim?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Yes.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;And how long have you neen married?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Six months&#8221; [blushes shyly]<br \/>\n&#8221; <em>Weeeeelll<\/em> done! &#8220;<\/p>\n\n<p>You have to love the man.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8216;m sure there are plenty of great young songwriters working out there now and yes, I really hate them&#8221;. From a rather wonderful talk by Loudon Wainwright. Jim White went to interview him once for the Independent, in Leeds, or &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=958\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=958\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}