{"id":287,"date":"2006-12-21T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=287"},"modified":"2015-10-29T22:40:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T05:40:51","slug":"wise-men-testify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/12\/21\/wise-men-testify\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise men testify&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/images\/blogimages\/WiseMenTestify.jpg\" alt=\"Wie Men Testify\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The headline caught my eye as I scanned Google News: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-2513322,00.html\">Wise men testify to dragon&#8217;s virgin birth<\/a>,&#8221; a story about a parthenogenic Komodo dragon at the London Zoo.<\/p>\n<p>No, too on the nose for a few days before Christmas, I thought.<\/p>\n<p>I looked on. Plenty of pointed, timely headlines. That was the problem. I was looking for something that was both timely and timeless. Like good ad copy.<\/p>\n<p>I kept coming back to to the dragon headline, finally deciding to use the first three words for the title of the guitar improvisation I&#8217;d just recorded.<\/p>\n<p>That worked pretty well for me&#8230; it was timely, a reference to the virgin Komodo dragon, as well as a reference to the season&#8230; but, more importantly, for the rest of the year it worked as something a tough D.A. might say to a witness to get him to talk on the stand.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-287-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/WiseMenTestify_TKMajor_AYoS_20061220\/2006-12-20_AYoS_Instrumental_Wise_Men_Testify.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/WiseMenTestify_TKMajor_AYoS_20061220\/2006-12-20_AYoS_Instrumental_Wise_Men_Testify.mp3\">http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/WiseMenTestify_TKMajor_AYoS_20061220\/2006-12-20_AYoS_Instrumental_Wise_Men_Testify.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/WiseMenTestify_TKMajor_AYoS_20061220\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Archive page for this recording<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The headline caught my eye as I scanned Google News: &#8220;Wise men testify to dragon&#8217;s virgin birth,&#8221; a story about a parthenogenic Komodo dragon at the London Zoo. No, too on the nose for a few days before Christmas, I thought. I looked on. Plenty of pointed, timely headlines. That was the problem. 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":[6,340,7],"tags":[320,575,321,576],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"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=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/1807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}