{"id":18435,"date":"2013-09-08T20:35:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T04:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=18435"},"modified":"2013-09-09T09:23:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T17:23:55","slug":"watch-john-prine-on-the-colbert-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-09\/watch-john-prine-on-the-colbert-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch John Prine on The Colbert Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Prine<\/strong> is simply one of the greatest American songwriters of all-time.\u00a0 Classified early-on as one of the legion of &#8220;next <strong>Dylans<\/strong>,&#8221; <strong>Prine<\/strong> nonetheless gave nothing away, transcended with his heart-of-gold storytelling, and drew more humanity from his human fans.\u00a0 Through thick and thin (and after suffering various illnesses that would have killed the average man) he has stuck with America and it&#8217;s chords-a-plenty.\u00a0 Last night he appeared on<strong> The Colbert Report<\/strong> to sing a couple of gems.\u00a0 Check &#8217;em out below.\u00a0 And sing on, <strong>John Prine<\/strong>, sing on!<\/p>\n<p><object style=\"display: block;\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:video:colbertnation.com:428880\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"autoPlay=false\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allownetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><embed style=\"display: block;\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:video:colbertnation.com:428880\" wmode=\"window\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object style=\"display: block;\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:video:colbertnation.com:428882\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"autoPlay=false\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allownetworking\" value=\"all\" \/><embed style=\"display: block;\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:video:colbertnation.com:428882\" wmode=\"window\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allownetworking=\"all\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Prine is simply one of the greatest American songwriters of all-time.\u00a0 Classified early-on as one of the legion of &#8220;next Dylans,&#8221; Prine nonetheless gave nothing away, transcended with his heart-of-gold storytelling, and drew more humanity from his human fans.\u00a0 Through thick and thin (and after suffering various illnesses that would have killed the average [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}