{"id":4012,"date":"2012-09-03T09:11:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T16:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2012-09-03T09:14:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T16:14:32","slug":"labor-day-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/09\/labor-day-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the United States this is Labor Day, since 1894 a national holiday that celebrates working peoples\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 contributions to the nation.  Although the calendar says that summer doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t end until September 21 this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Honor-Labor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Honor-Labor.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Honor Labor\" width=\"150\" height=\"147\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Honor-Labor.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Honor-Labor-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>many Americans consider that Labor Day marks the close of the season. This three-day weekend, they pile into their automobiles despite four-dollars-a-gallon gasoline. They range through the land to camp out, have picnics, visit lakes and ocean beaches, and watch fireworks. This being an election year, some seek out rallies and listen to candidates. It is also a day when many working people go to work because the stores that employ them have huge Labor Day sales. The irony. <\/p>\n<p>There is no official song for this holiday, although Pete Seeger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Solidarity Forever,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Tennessee Ernie Ford\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sixteen Tons\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and Dolly Parton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u01539 To 5\u00e2\u20ac\u009d always get Labor Day airplay. From 1962&#151;when the average price of a gallon of regular gas was 31 cents&#151;here is the unofficial <em>Rifftides<\/em> Labor Day song for 2012. Cannonball Adderley introduces it. His sextet has Nat Adderley, Joe Zawinul, Yusef Lateef, Louis Hayes and Sam Jones. <\/p>\n<p><div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VBxAC4ywaJ4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>Happy Labor Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the United States this is Labor Day, since 1894 a national holiday that celebrates working peoples\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 contributions to the nation. Although the calendar says that summer doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t end until September 21 this year, many Americans consider that Labor Day marks the close of the season. This three-day weekend, they pile into their automobiles despite [&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-4012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","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=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}