{"id":3667,"date":"2011-10-03T23:15:22","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T04:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2011-10-04T00:48:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T05:48:25","slug":"music-on-monday-closer-to-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=3667","title":{"rendered":"music on monday: closer to fine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite songs, by the Indigo Girls:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j2YP6AqFBTQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is one of the few songs we used to do during our college sing-alongs that was not played by James Taylor, Simon (with or without Garfunkel), PP&#038;M, or the Beatles (in various permutations). It&#8217;s the song that Brian used to drive home the &#8220;three repeats in folk music&#8221; rule with us all.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, it came on my iPod nearly two hours into the drive home, just as I had finally reached Arlington and wanted to be home already. I turned the radio up as loud as it would go and sang along as if we were all together on a road trip.<\/p>\n<p>And, really, isn&#8217;t life almost always closer to fine after you&#8217;ve belted out a favorite song than it was before it came on?<\/p>\n<p>What about you? What are your closer to fine songs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite songs, by the Indigo Girls: This is one of the few songs we used to do during our college sing-alongs that was not played by James Taylor, Simon (with or without Garfunkel), PP&#038;M, or the Beatles (in various permutations). 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