{"id":5544,"date":"2011-07-25T15:41:22","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T15:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=5544"},"modified":"2011-07-25T15:42:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T15:42:35","slug":"rest-and-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-07\/rest-and-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest and Peace?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of ink and pixels have been and will be spread before your eyeballs, all attempting to make sense of <strong>Amy&#8217;s departure<\/strong>.\u00a0 Good luck with that.\u00a0 We&#8217;re still stuck at<strong> Ian<\/strong> and <strong>Kurt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>27 <\/strong><\/em>is <strong>M.I.A.<\/strong> in action while missing the gone-too-soon.\u00a0 Not for the faint of heart, and not the soundtrack that comes immediately to mind. But the violin sells it for now.\u00a0 The teachable moment lingers still though.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;said your all mouth and no brains<br \/>\nall rock stars go to heaven<br \/>\nyou said you&#8217;ll be dead at 27<br \/>\nwhen we drunk in a English tavern<br \/>\nthe owner poured you the Bourbon<br \/>\nand you drunk your self so rotten<br \/>\nhe got so rich he bought a Bentley<br \/>\nand moved himself to Devon<\/p>\n<p>you started dirty dancing<br \/>\nand you bar tended a dozen<br \/>\ni took you to the clinic<br \/>\nto get you clean but you couldn&#8217;t<br \/>\nsaid in 2 days ur 27 and and ur destiny was comin<br \/>\nand ur papa passed so sudden<br \/>\nand left you with lil somin<\/p>\n<p>you blew that money on a mountain of drugs<br \/>\nand staged your self a bedin<br \/>\na month later when i popped in<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re still high but the winter set in<br \/>\ni bought you a coffee and a muffin<br \/>\nand you quoted me some Lenin<br \/>\ni wished i was that clever<br \/>\nbut thats what kept me coming<br \/>\nyour friendship did mean somin<br \/>\nbut you left me for nothin<br \/>\nwhen i left,  you befriended a rope<br \/>\nand i found you both were hanging.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>M.I.A.&#8211;<em>27<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F19657595&amp;\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" src=\"http:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F19657595&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><span><a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/m_i_a-1\/27-1\">27<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/m_i_a-1\">_M_I_A_<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of ink and pixels have been and will be spread before your eyeballs, all attempting to make sense of Amy&#8217;s departure.\u00a0 Good luck with that.\u00a0 We&#8217;re still stuck at Ian and Kurt. 27 is M.I.A. in action while missing the gone-too-soon.\u00a0 Not for the faint of heart, and not the soundtrack that comes [&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-5544","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\/5544","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=5544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}