{"id":21019,"date":"2014-01-28T11:46:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T16:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=21019"},"modified":"2014-01-28T11:46:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T16:46:57","slug":"hammer-time-pete-seeger-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hammer-time-pete-seeger-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammer Time: Pete Seeger Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rl-yszPdRTk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>If anyone has a deeper connection, feel free to share your thoughts on <strong>Pete Seeger<\/strong>, who <a title=\"Pete Seeger obit\" href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/29\/arts\/music\/pete-seeger-songwriter-and-champion-of-folk-music-dies-at-94.html?_r=0&amp;referrer=\" target=\"_blank\">died today at 94<\/a>. I&#8217;ve never been a folkie, but I thought he was cool\u2014for a folkie and way beyond. Reading about him this morning I was reminded of a <a title=\"The Ballad of Easy Rider\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-ballad-of-easy-rider\/\" target=\"_blank\">third song my dad loved<\/a>: \u201cIf I Had a Hammer.\u201d Carpentry was my dad\u2019s passion. It was his force for good. He\u2019d play me that song and prompt me to sing along. It was nice. There\u2019s another nice member I can carry with me from that man. Thanks, Pete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone has a deeper connection, feel free to share your thoughts on Pete Seeger, who died today at 94. I&#8217;ve never been a folkie, but I thought he was cool\u2014for a folkie and way beyond. Reading about him this morning I was reminded of a third song my dad loved: \u201cIf I Had a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hammer-time-pete-seeger-dead\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[668,170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}