{"id":374,"date":"2019-08-19T17:41:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T17:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/?p=374"},"modified":"2019-08-19T17:41:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T17:41:40","slug":"tarnished-karma-straight-as-an-arrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/tarnished-karma-straight-as-an-arrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarnished Karma (Straight As An Arrow)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4gnzIq_5dbQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> I was still in high school during the summer of love in 1968 and didn&#8217;t graduate until 1971.  So, though I adopted the hippy dress code just a little bit, I was a tad too young (coming from a loving family) to run off to Haight Ashbury.  In fact, I didn&#8217;t get involved in much anything in those days, preferring to keep to my own company other than organized events my parents got me involved in (with a few exceptions).  And looking back years later, once I had developed more of a social conscious, I wrote this song as a mantra against lack of involvement.  I originally called it Tarnished Karma, but when I decided to take that for my performance name, I changed the name of the song to Straight As An Arrow, which seemed very Republican somehow, and (from what I&#8217;ve seen of late) was not all that inaccurate.  Anyway, here &#8217;tis&#8230;<br> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was still in high school during the summer of love in 1968 and didn&#8217;t graduate until 1971. So, though I adopted the hippy dress code just a little bit, I was a tad too young (coming from a loving family) to run off to Haight Ashbury. In fact, I didn&#8217;t get involved in much [&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-374","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-62","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","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=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storymind.com\/melanie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}