{"id":14239,"date":"2013-06-15T06:40:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T13:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=14239"},"modified":"2013-06-15T06:40:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T13:40:28","slug":"silent-running-by-mike-and-the-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/15\/silent-running-by-mike-and-the-mechanics\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Silent Running&#8221; by Mike and the Mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just because Shel brought it up in comments and it&#8217;s always been a great song.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ep7W89I_V_g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ep7W89I_V_g\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a> for those who can&#8217;t see the embed.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, the video&#8217;s a little &#8220;1980s&#8221; now. But still &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>ADDED: I suppose it&#8217;s a plus (although a pretty weird one) that this song has been <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silent_Running_%28On_Dangerous_Ground%29\" target=\"_blank\">banned on the BBC<\/a> for many years &#8220;&#8230;due to its address of war, nationalism and religion, as well as a direct reference to weaponry in the line, &#8216;There&#8217;s a gun and ammunition just inside the doorway.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Geez, I knew the Brits had gotten lily-livered in the last few decades (no offense, reader Roger), but that&#8217;s nuts! What <i>are<\/i> they allowed to listen to on the BBC? Songs about unicorns, lollypops, and how wonderful the government is?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because Shel brought it up in comments and it&#8217;s always been a great song. Source for those who can&#8217;t see the embed. Yeah, the video&#8217;s a little &#8220;1980s&#8221; now. But still &#8230; &#8212;&#8211; ADDED: I suppose it&#8217;s a plus (although a pretty weird one) that this song has been banned on the BBC for many years &#8220;&#8230;due to its address of war, nationalism and religion, as well as a direct reference to weaponry in the line, &#8216;There&#8217;s a gun and ammunition just inside the doorway.&#8217;&#8221; Geez, I knew the Brits had gotten lily-livered in the last few decades (no&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/15\/silent-running-by-mike-and-the-mechanics\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Silent Running&#8221; by Mike and the Mechanics<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-books-and-movies","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}