{"id":82,"date":"2005-12-06T07:34:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-06T07:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=82"},"modified":"2015-11-02T15:47:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T23:47:59","slug":"the-day-my-cigar-went-out-in-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2005\/12\/06\/the-day-my-cigar-went-out-in-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day My Cigar Went Out in the Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/images\/blogimages\/Cigar.jpg\" alt=\"XXXXX\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">A<\/span> rainy day toward the end of winter, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>A radiant young girl in an ancient, raggedy mink coat and a pair of jeans and hiking boots splashing in leafy gutters&#8230;<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-82-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/The_Day_My_Cigar_Went_Out_in_the_Rain\/AYoS20051205_The_Day_My_Cigar_Went_Out_in_the_Rain.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/The_Day_My_Cigar_Went_Out_in_the_Rain\/AYoS20051205_The_Day_My_Cigar_Went_Out_in_the_Rain.mp3\">http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/The_Day_My_Cigar_Went_Out_in_the_Rain\/AYoS20051205_The_Day_My_Cigar_Went_Out_in_the_Rain.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><em><strong>The Day My Cigar Went Out in the Rain<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>You were wrapped up that day<br \/>\nin an old fur coat<br \/>\nwe were splashing in puddles<br \/>\nin the lane<\/p>\n<p>That was one day<br \/>\nI won&#8217;t ever forget<br \/>\nthe day my<br \/>\ncigar went out<br \/>\nin the rain<\/p>\n<p>I was going to send<br \/>\nfor the letters I wrote<br \/>\nto see what life<br \/>\nwas like in the past<\/p>\n<p>The times that we laughed<br \/>\nand the times that we cried<br \/>\nfall away from the light<br \/>\nso fast<\/p>\n<p>(C)1974, TK Major<\/p>\n<p>[A note on the photo above: I took this last winter not far from where I first kissed the girl in this song, But actually, I just wanted an excuse to put it up. Nice sky, huh?]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A rainy day toward the end of winter, 1973. A radiant young girl in an ancient, raggedy mink coat and a pair of jeans and hiking boots splashing in leafy gutters&#8230; http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/The_Day_My_Cigar_Went_Out_in_the_Rain\/AYoS20051205_The_Day_My_Cigar_Went_Out_in_the_Rain.mp3 The Day My Cigar Went Out in the Rain You were wrapped up that day in an old fur [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,340],"tags":[624,519],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82"}],"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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}