{"id":1879,"date":"2009-11-20T01:05:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T09:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2009-11-20T01:05:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T09:05:05","slug":"indelible_lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/11\/indelible_lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Indelible Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the <em>Rifftides<\/em> staff gets back to business as usual, whatever that is, we&#8217;re finding it difficult to let go of thoughts about Johnny Mercer. Lines from his songs won&#8217;t go away &#8212; ever.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>There&#8217;s a dance pavillion in the rain,<br \/>\nAll shuttered down&#8230;<br \/>\nI remember, too,<br \/>\na distant bell<br \/>\nand stars that fell<br \/>\nlike rain,<br \/>\nout of the blue.<br \/>\nFaint as a will-o-the-wisp,<br \/>\ncrazy as a loon,<br \/>\nsad as a gypsy<br \/>\nserenading the moon.<br \/>\nThe days of wine and roses<br \/>\nlaugh and run away,<br \/>\nlike a child at play&#8230;<br \/>\nGo out and try your luck&#8211;<br \/>\nyou may be Donald Duck.<br \/>\nHooray for Hollywood!<br \/>\nI know every trail in the Lone Star State,<br \/>\n&#8217;cause I ride the range in a Ford V-Eight&#8230;<br \/>\nThis torch that I&#8217;ve found<br \/>\nmust be drowned or it soon might explode.<br \/>\nMake it one more for my baby<br \/>\nand one more for the road,<br \/>\nthat long, long road.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Rifftides staff gets back to business as usual, whatever that is, we&#8217;re finding it difficult to let go of thoughts about Johnny Mercer. Lines from his songs won&#8217;t go away &#8212; ever. There&#8217;s a dance pavillion in the rain, All shuttered down&#8230; I remember, too, a distant bell and stars that fell like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}