{"id":10594,"date":"2024-09-18T15:45:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T20:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=10594"},"modified":"2024-09-18T15:45:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T20:45:33","slug":"if-i-should-fall-from-grace-with-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2024\/09\/18\/if-i-should-fall-from-grace-with-god\/","title":{"rendered":"If I Should Fall From Grace With God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nPeter Mitchell nails <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsocialist.org.uk\/affirmations-if-i-should-fall-from-grace-with-god\/\">the appeal of the Pogues<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThat hauntedness is probably the most important thing about the Pogues. If their best songs have the quality that all properly miraculous songs have, of having somehow always existed and simply been plucked from the air or heaved up from a collective unconscious, it\u2019s worth remembering that they emerge from an obsessive engagement with a folk tradition and the histories that made it \u2013 all of which are histories, more or less, of defeat.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nCoincidently, <cite>If I Should Fall From Grace With God<\/cite> was also my introduction to the Pogues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Mitchell nails the appeal of the Pogues: That hauntedness is probably the most important thing about the Pogues. If their best songs have the quality that all properly miraculous songs have, of having somehow always existed and simply been plucked from the air or heaved up from a collective unconscious, it\u2019s worth remembering that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10595,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10594\/revisions\/10595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}