{"id":2497,"date":"2017-12-11T10:19:09","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T18:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=2497"},"modified":"2018-03-27T12:21:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T19:21:20","slug":"stuff-falls-between-the-cracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2017\/12\/11\/stuff-falls-between-the-cracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuff falls between the cracks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/bet-the-farm.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2626 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/bet-the-farm-300x174.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/bet-the-farm-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/bet-the-farm.png 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This brief whiff of piffle was actually written back in 2014 while I was participating in an online songwriting forum. Not sure but the exercise might have been to write a song on a specific topic when you felt <em>absolutely no inspiration whatsoever<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2497-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/ILostTheFarmOnLovingYou\/I%20Bet%20the%20Farm%20on%20Loving%20You.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/ILostTheFarmOnLovingYou\/I%20Bet%20the%20Farm%20on%20Loving%20You.mp3\">https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/ILostTheFarmOnLovingYou\/I%20Bet%20the%20Farm%20on%20Loving%20You.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<h3>I Bet the Farm on Loving You<\/h3>\n<p>I lost my dog<br \/>\nI lost my cow<br \/>\nI lost my tractor<br \/>\nI lost my plow<br \/>\nI lost my combine<br \/>\nI lost my truck<br \/>\nyou took them all<br \/>\nand said good luck<\/p>\n<p><strong>ch<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>I bet the farm<br \/>\non loving you<br \/>\nand I lost it all<br \/>\nwhen the divorce went through<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I lost the pride<br \/>\nmy pa instilled<br \/>\nI lost the land<br \/>\nmy grandpa tilled<br \/>\nI lost the deed<br \/>\nthe county gives<br \/>\nI lost the will<br \/>\nthe will to live<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d begin again<br \/>\nbut where to start<br \/>\nyou took my life<br \/>\nyou took my heart<br \/>\nyou took my friends<br \/>\nand my pastor, too<br \/>\nI lost it all<br \/>\nby loving you<\/p>\n<p><strong>ch<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>I bet the farm<br \/>\non loving you<br \/>\nand I lost it all<br \/>\nby loving you<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[these lyrics vary slightly from the attached recording; I guess these above should be considered the finished version, maybe, or not]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This brief whiff of piffle was actually written back in 2014 while I was participating in an online songwriting forum. Not sure but the exercise might have been to write a song on a specific topic when you felt absolutely no inspiration whatsoever&#8230; I Bet the Farm on Loving You I lost my dog I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,263],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497"}],"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=2497"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2672,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2497\/revisions\/2672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}