{"id":71,"date":"2007-08-15T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclecticamateur.wordpress.com\/2007\/08\/15\/roots"},"modified":"2014-12-02T11:06:13","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T16:06:13","slug":"roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/roots.html\/","title":{"rendered":"Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/anglocath.blogspot.com\/\">Hilary<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/dprice.blogspot.com\/\">Dale<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P5h4PFBuzvw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artists.letssingit.com\/show-of-hands-lyrics-roots-2kbm515\">lyrics<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not even English myself &#8212; just an in-law, really.  Even so.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose it doesn&#8217;t help that last night&#8217;s activity was reading aloud <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Howard_Pyle\">Howard Pyle&#8217;<\/a>s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/etext\/964\">Robin Hood<\/a> where good King Richard the Lion&#8217;s Heart came to Sherwood Forest and set things aright &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s more than that:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style: italic;\"><p>And we learn to be ashamed before we walk,<br \/>\nOf the way we look and the way we talk.<br \/>\nWithout our stories, or our songs,<br \/>\nHow will we know where we come from?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How will we know?  The amnesia is nearly complete.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style: italic;\"><p>After the speeches when the cake&#8217;s been cut, the disco&#8217;s over and the bar is shut.<br \/>\nAt Christening, Birthday, Wedding or Wake,<br \/>\nWhat can we sing until the morning breaks?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It also doesn&#8217;t help that I&#8217;m recently back from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/frey-reunion-2004.html\">another Frey reunion<\/a>.  Everything I said about the vanishing of the songs with my generation?  Same song, second verse.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">Haul away boys, let them go,<br \/>\nOut in the wind and the rain and snow.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ve lost more than we&#8217;ll ever know,<br \/>\n&#8216;Round the rocky shores of England.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">We need roots!<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Hilary, via Dale: lyrics I&#8217;m not even English myself &#8212; just an in-law, really. Even so. I suppose it doesn&#8217;t help that last night&#8217;s activity was reading aloud Howard Pyle&#8217;s Robin Hood where good King Richard the Lion&#8217;s Heart came to Sherwood Forest and set things aright &#8230; But it&#8217;s more than that: And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2sZgq-roots","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/1047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}