{"id":63,"date":"2005-11-18T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T08:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=63"},"modified":"2015-10-15T17:08:05","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T00:08:05","slug":"bankruptcy-court-no-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2005\/11\/18\/bankruptcy-court-no-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Bankruptcy Court No. 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/images\/blogimages\/BankruptcyCourtNo9.jpg\" alt=\"Bankruptcy Court No. 9\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Money, honey.<\/p>\n<p>A sensible person doesn&#8217;t need all that much.<\/p>\n<p>But sensible people sometimes &#8212; depsite their innate sensibility &#8212; get tangled up with people who aren&#8217;t sensible. Or anything close to it. People who refuse to acknowledge cold hard reality. People who invent their <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">own<\/span> reality and try to drag you in behind them. And when the reality you tried to share with them becomes an untenable fantasy, they leave <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">you<\/span> holding the big, stinky bag.<\/p>\n<p>[BTW, you&#8217;ll notice me as songwriter being hoist on the petard of my compulsion to work contemporary technology into my lyrics. Floppy disks for those of you who began computing in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">this<\/span> century were those&#8230; ]<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-63-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Bankruptcy_Court_No._9\/AYoS20051117_Bankruptcy_Court_No_9.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Bankruptcy_Court_No._9\/AYoS20051117_Bankruptcy_Court_No_9.mp3\">http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Bankruptcy_Court_No._9\/AYoS20051117_Bankruptcy_Court_No_9.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Bankruptcy Court No. 9<\/span><\/p>\n<p>my baby left me<br \/>\nleft me sad and cryin&#8230;<br \/>\nshe said I&#8217;m takin the plastic<br \/>\nleaving all these bills behind<\/p>\n<p>I got a hearing Monday down in<br \/>\nbankruptcy Court Number 9&#8230;<br \/>\nMy baby won&#8217;t be there with me<br \/>\nan neither wil my credit ine<\/p>\n<p>Oh baby those checks you wrote<br \/>\nto the dress and jewelry stores<br \/>\nYou hung so much bad paper<br \/>\nthey won&#8217;t take my (dough) cash no more<\/p>\n<p>Telecredit&#8217;s got a file on you<br \/>\ntakes a thousand floppy disks<br \/>\nTRW blew a main frame<br \/>\njust counting your bad checks<\/p>\n<p>You drove me to the poorhouse<br \/>\nand shoved me thru the door<br \/>\nbut first ya picked my pocket<br \/>\nto make sure they was no more<\/p>\n<p>(C)1988<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Money, honey. A sensible person doesn&#8217;t need all that much. But sensible people sometimes &#8212; depsite their innate sensibility &#8212; get tangled up with people who aren&#8217;t sensible. Or anything close to it. People who refuse to acknowledge cold hard reality. People who invent their own reality and try to drag you in behind them. [&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],"tags":[706,702,703,713,705],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"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=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}