{"id":1902,"date":"2020-01-06T19:25:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T03:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2020-01-06T19:25:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T03:25:57","slug":"straight-as-an-arrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/straight-as-an-arrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Straight As An Arrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/tarnished-karma-straight-as-an-arrow.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I graduated college in 1971 at the height of the civil disobedience protests against the war in Vietnam, against hunger, racism, and sexism.  But, being a rather shy kid and more of a thinker than a do-er, I never did get involved.  No sit-ins, no arrests, no signs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I did do, about fifteen years later, was write this song as an admonition to myself and a warning to others about the personal dangers of choosing to not get involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I graduated college in 1971 at the height of the civil disobedience protests against the war in Vietnam, against hunger, racism, and sexism. But, being a rather shy kid and more of a thinker than a do-er, I never did get involved. No sit-ins, no arrests, no signs. What I did do, about fifteen years [&hellip;]<\/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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-compositions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paauzo-uG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}