{"id":22560,"date":"2014-10-23T20:18:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T04:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=22560"},"modified":"2014-10-24T06:22:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T14:22:20","slug":"sweet-and-gruff-listen-to-leonard-cohens-did-i-ever-love-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-10\/sweet-and-gruff-listen-to-leonard-cohens-did-i-ever-love-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet and Gruff:  Listen to Leonard Cohen&#8217;s &#8220;Did I Ever Love You?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/lc5_0614f_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-22565\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/lc5_0614f_2-650x510.jpg\" alt=\"lc5_0614f_2\" width=\"635\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/lc5_0614f_2-650x510.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/lc5_0614f_2-150x117.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/lc5_0614f_2-450x353.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/lc5_0614f_2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We often think we can do him justice with our mealy-mouthed words.\u00a0 And then we throw up our hands &#8217;cause nobody can do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leonardcohen.com\/us\/home\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Leonard Cohen<\/strong><\/a> justice.\u00a0 Now that he&#8217;s at the age of 80, his songs have moved us for 47 years since his debut album came out in 1967.\u00a0 A scant 47 years of the rarest musical intelligentsia.\u00a0 Shows how old you can be.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-09\/listen-to-leonard-cohen-poetically-preaching-on-new-song-almost-like-the-blues\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>As we wrote previously<\/strong><\/a>, Cohen has just released his new album <em><strong>Popular Problems<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 The song below confirms his virulence at that age.\u00a0 Long live Leonard Cohen!\u00a0 Aurally it smacks of <strong>Tom Waits<\/strong> and a few gifted angels.\u00a0 <strong>Long live Leonard Cohen<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uSuCWq0ruuk\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often think we can do him justice with our mealy-mouthed words.\u00a0 And then we throw up our hands &#8217;cause nobody can do Leonard Cohen justice.\u00a0 Now that he&#8217;s at the age of 80, his songs have moved us for 47 years since his debut album came out in 1967.\u00a0 A scant 47 years of [&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-22560","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\/22560","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=22560"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22572,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22560\/revisions\/22572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}