{"id":127,"date":"2009-09-18T10:48:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T15:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2009\/09\/18\/090918_onetoke\/"},"modified":"2022-03-13T20:16:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T01:16:21","slug":"090918_onetoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/09\/18\/090918_onetoke\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A modern spiritual&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was Lawrence Welk really this clueless? (H\/T <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dustbury.com\/archives\/9008\">Charles at Dustbury.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ye3ecDYxOkg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I initially thought this was a very well done spoof, but I&#8217;m now pretty sure it&#8217;s legit.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a tip: just because a song mentions Jesus and Mary &#8211; even as proper nouns instead of exclamations &#8211; doesn&#8217;t make it a &#8220;spiritual.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Confession: I still have <i>Tarkio Road<\/i>, the album from which this song came, on vinyl. And, yes, I knew what I was buying when I bought it.<\/p>\n<p><i>Update: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/facts\/brewer-shipley\/one-toke-over-the-line\">Here&#8217;s more<\/a> about the song, the album, the original artists, and this amazing Welkish performance.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Was Lawrence Welk really this clueless? (H\/T Charles at Dustbury.com) I initially thought this was a very well done spoof, but I&#8217;m now pretty sure it&#8217;s legit. Here&#8217;s a tip: just because a song mentions Jesus and Mary &#8211; even as proper nouns instead of exclamations &#8211; doesn&#8217;t make it a &#8220;spiritual.&#8221; Confession: I still&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/09\/18\/090918_onetoke\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;A modern spiritual&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-society-culture","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8763,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/8763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}