{"id":2736,"date":"2006-04-26T12:34:57","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T16:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2736"},"modified":"2007-09-09T01:08:29","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T08:08:29","slug":"election-reform-tune-of-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2736","title":{"rendered":"Election Reform Tune of the Moment&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/ShannonWilliford.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">BRAD BLOG<\/a> reader and kick-ass blues man Shannon Williford (<i>that&#8217;s him at right<\/i>) sends us a rockin&#8217; blues ditty titled simply &#8220;Election Reform&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re fairly certain it&#8217;s the first blues tune to include the word &#8220;blogs&#8221; in the lyrics, we&#8217;re damn near positive it&#8217;s the first one to include the words &#8220;BradBlog.com&#8221; in it. And even &#8220;VotersUnite.org&#8221; (shout out to our pal John Gideon!) makes the cut for that matter. And others as well!<\/p>\n<p>Shannon posted the lyrics, some observations on playing this song around Nashville and a few other thoughts on the current state of anti-establishment music in <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002720.htm#44\">this comment<\/a> on our Neil Young <i>Living With War<\/i> album <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/archives\/00002720.htm\">review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The tune certainly makes me smile. Hope it does the same for you. Turn up the speakers and&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/audio\/ElectionReform_ShannonWilliford.mp3\">Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(<i>Here are additional details on Williford&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deliciousbluesstew.com\/\">Delicious Blues Stew<\/a>!<\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRAD BLOG reader and kick-ass blues man Shannon Williford (that&#8217;s him at right) sends us a rockin&#8217; blues ditty titled simply &#8220;Election Reform&#8221;. While we&#8217;re fairly certain it&#8217;s the first blues tune to include the word &#8220;blogs&#8221; in the lyrics, we&#8217;re damn near positive it&#8217;s the first one to include the words &#8220;BradBlog.com&#8221; in it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,28],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brad-blog","category-election-reform","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2736"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}