{"id":1209,"date":"2015-09-14T18:31:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T01:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=1209"},"modified":"2019-03-24T14:35:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T21:35:42","slug":"countdown-to-the-never-before-never-again-ayos-10-year-anniverery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2015\/09\/14\/countdown-to-the-never-before-never-again-ayos-10-year-anniverery\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thousand Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Nine days from now, on the 2015 Autumnal Equinox, Wednesday, September 23, A Year of Songs will be 10 years old.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After over 400 posts that included 300 songs &#8212; that were downloaded over a half million times from Archive.org\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0I admit, I had let the pace slack. OK, I put a landing page randomizer on it so people would see something different every time they visited and pretended that was close enough for blogland.<\/p>\n<p>But, of course&#8230; the caged bird must sing. If you can call it singing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DcFNfHzeuk0\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019ve Got a Thousand Lies\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n(originally, Bridge to Nowhere)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve got a thousand lies<br \/>\nI can\u2019t wait to tell you<br \/>\nI\u2019ve got a bridge to nowhere<br \/>\nI know I could sell you<br \/>\nI\u2019ve got a real nice dream<br \/>\nas phony as hell<br \/>\nyou know it\u2019s all a<br \/>\npart of the game<\/p>\n<p>I know the rules<br \/>\nI\u2019m making them up<br \/>\nanything that works<br \/>\njust to stay on top<br \/>\nI don\u2019t care who<br \/>\nelse takes the drop<br \/>\n\u2019cause it\u2019s all a<br \/>\npart of the game<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>tell a lie often enough<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>people forget<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>where the truth leaves off<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>but usually the truth \u2014<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>it\u2019s just not enough<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>besides it\u2019s all a part of the game<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve got a reason<br \/>\nfor all that I do<br \/>\nlife\u2019s got a meaning<br \/>\nI\u2019ll explain it to you<br \/>\nit\u2019s all about me<br \/>\nit\u2019s not about you and<br \/>\nit\u2019s all a part of the game<\/p>\n<p>2008-09-19<br \/>\n\u00a92008, TK Major<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine days from now, on the 2015 Autumnal Equinox, Wednesday, September 23, A Year of Songs will be 10 years old. After over 400 posts that included 300 songs &#8212; that were downloaded over a half million times from Archive.org\u00a0&#8212;\u00a0I admit, I had let the pace slack. OK, I put a landing page randomizer on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,148,5],"tags":[358,307,258,305,45,306,967,328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3093,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209\/revisions\/3093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}