{"id":18696,"date":"2011-02-25T10:32:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T15:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/18696\/ballad-runaway-horse\/"},"modified":"2011-02-25T10:32:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T15:32:43","slug":"ballad-runaway-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/18696\/ballad-runaway-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballad of the Runaway Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\">The inspiration for covering this song came from my Facebook activity feed.\u00a0 Someone posed the question: <strong>&#8220;What is your most romantic song of all time?&#8221;<\/strong>&#8230; <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\">This song was my reply.\u00a0 To this very day, I found that listening to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5BD7CFwiIsI\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Warnes version<\/a> (this song was originally written by Leonard Cohen and then modified by EmmyLou Harris), it would still make me choke up and bring a tear to my eye.\u00a0 Yeah, yeah.\u00a0 Sappy stuff&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\">By covering it in my ukulele style, I hope I did it a little justice.\u00a0 Many thanks to those who pitched in on my previous blog and posted pictures to be used for the background.\u00a0 Left to my own choices, I found I was using far too many half-naked cowgirls in seductive poses.\u00a0 This is a romantic song, but I was turning it into soft porn. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Is this a song about a woman and a horse or is the horse a man?\u00a0 If the question above about the most romantic song of all time appeared in your stream, what would you answer?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inspiration for covering this song came from my Facebook activity feed.\u00a0 Someone posed the question: &#8220;What is your most romantic song of all time?&#8221;&#8230; This song was my reply.\u00a0 To this very day, I found that listening to the Jennifer Warnes version (this song was originally written by Leonard Cohen and then modified by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16,8,837],"tags":[81,108,2066,106],"class_list":["post-18696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friendburst","category-games","category-music","category-nature-2","tag-joko","tag-music-2","tag-music-video","tag-ukulele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}