{"id":3977,"date":"2010-06-02T23:05:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T03:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=3977"},"modified":"2010-06-02T23:05:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T03:05:27","slug":"midweek-makeover-open-borders-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/06\/02\/midweek-makeover-open-borders-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Makeover: Open Borders Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are few things I find more viscerally offensive than being told I&#8217;m not allowed to cross an\u00c2\u00a0arbitrary\u00c2\u00a0line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Don't_Fence_Me_In_(song)\">Don&#8217;t Fence Me In<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0One of my favorite songs, no irony required.<\/p>\n<p>The original author was Cole Porter, but the earliest recording that I can find is by Roy Rogers, in 1944:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WLoYFvbR0XY[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Later that year, Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters (for whom I have a weakness) tried it out:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vMnLoOnrwbg[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s Ella, tho&#8217; honestly, it just doesn&#8217;t work for me:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bw1KdIDRwww[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>And in modern day, David Byrne has a go at it:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=14l75vz-R9w[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are few things I find more viscerally offensive than being told I&#8217;m not allowed to cross an\u00c2\u00a0arbitrary\u00c2\u00a0line. Don&#8217;t Fence Me In. \u00c2\u00a0One of my favorite songs, no irony required. The original author was Cole Porter, but the earliest recording that I can find is by Roy Rogers, in 1944: [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WLoYFvbR0XY[\/youtube] Later that year, Bing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3979,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}