{"id":4479,"date":"2009-01-22T16:09:39","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T21:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=4479"},"modified":"2009-01-22T16:09:39","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T21:09:39","slug":"johnny-cash-prophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=4479","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Cash, Prophet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rosanne Cash tells the story of her time playing the <a href=\"http:\/\/measureformeasure.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/18\/my-inauguration-story\/\">Clinton Inauguration<\/a>, and includes this bit about her father:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My dad and I loved politics and we loved talking about world affairs. A presidential election was thrilling to both of us. In the last few years of his life he was obsessed with CNN and turned it on at 4:00 in the morning, as soon as he woke. He said he woke up wanting to know what had happened in the world while he was asleep.<\/p>\n<p>We had a discussion about world leaders not long before his death in 2003, and I decried the lack of women in high office. \u201cA black man will be president first, before a woman,\u201d Dad said authoritatively. \u201cPeople in this country are more prejudiced toward women than they are toward black men.\u201d He paused. \u201cBut you\u2019ll see both in your lifetime,\u201d he said quietly. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Smart man. I always thought it would be a woman would be first - a Republican woman, specifically. I'm glad I was wrong about the Republican part, kindof ambivalent about the other part - either one would've been fine, in the abstract.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I can't think of late-era Johnny Cash anymore without thinking about <a href=\"http:\/\/sadkermit.com\/\">Sad Kermit's<\/a> version of Johnny Cash's cover of NiN's \"Hurt\" (probably NSFW):<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/57ta7mkgrOU&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/57ta7mkgrOU&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&feature=player_embedded&fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rosanne Cash tells the story of her time playing the Clinton Inauguration, and includes this bit about her father: My dad and I loved politics and we loved talking about world affairs. A presidential election was thrilling to both of us. In the last few years of his life he was obsessed with CNN and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}