{"id":3998,"date":"2012-07-24T14:55:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T19:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=3998"},"modified":"2012-07-24T14:55:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T19:55:55","slug":"bruuuce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/07\/24\/bruuuce\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruuuce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<cite>The New Yorker<\/cite> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2012\/07\/30\/120730fa_fact_remnick?currentPage=all\">an excellent profile of the Boss<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe songs were a way of talking to the silent father. \u201cMy dad was very nonverbal\u2014you couldn\u2019t really have a conversation with him,\u201d Springsteen told me. \u201cI had to make my peace with that, but I had to have a conversation with him, because I needed to have one. It ain\u2019t the best way to go about it, but that was the only way I could, so I did, and eventually he did respond. He might not have liked the songs, but I think he liked that they existed. It meant that he mattered. He\u2019d get asked, \u2018What are your favorite songs?\u2019 And he\u2019d say, \u2018The ones that are about me.\u2019 \u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nOne of the few genuine regrets in my life is not having seen Bruce Springsteen with the complete E-Street band when I had the chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Yorker has an excellent profile of the Boss: The songs were a way of talking to the silent father. \u201cMy dad was very nonverbal\u2014you couldn\u2019t really have a conversation with him,\u201d Springsteen told me. \u201cI had to make my peace with that, but I had to have a conversation with him, because I [&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-3998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998","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=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3999,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions\/3999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}