{"id":4287,"date":"2016-12-31T17:11:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T01:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=4287"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:48:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:48:38","slug":"george-michael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2016\/12\/31\/george-michael\/","title":{"rendered":"George Michael"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did a Facebook post about my favorite George Michael songs &#8212; typically for me, the introspective ballads.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite George Michael song&#8211; Mother&#8217;s Pride.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"mothers pride george michael\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uwutf8Qd84Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s only about the song; I&#8217;ve never seen the video until just now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And all the husbands, all the sons, all the lovers gone<br \/>\nThey make no difference<br \/>\nNo difference in the end<br \/>\nStill hear the woman say your daddy died a hero<br \/>\nIn the name of god and man&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\\\\<\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps this one, a later song very much in the mode of &#8220;Jesus to a Child&#8221;  &#8212; &#8220;You Have Been Loved&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"George Michael - You Have Been Loved (Audio)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f6izqHk4ugo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take care my love, she said<br \/>\nYou have been loved&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on this, there are later lines that resonate, that speak to my own life:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well I&#8217;ve no daughters, I&#8217;ve no sons<br \/>\nGuess I&#8217;m the only one<br \/>\nLiving in my life&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The swell and descent of the melody on that last line is heart-crushing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a Facebook post about my favorite George Michael songs &#8212; typically for me, the introspective ballads. My favorite George Michael song&#8211; Mother&#8217;s Pride. It&#8217;s only about the song; I&#8217;ve never seen the video until just now. &#8220;And all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2016\/12\/31\/george-michael\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4292,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions\/4292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}