{"id":6748,"date":"2011-04-12T11:59:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T15:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=6748"},"modified":"2011-04-12T11:59:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T15:59:44","slug":"last-man-standing-the-mississippi-the-mighty-miss-the-old-maid-the-old-man%e2%80%a6deep-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-the-mississippi-the-mighty-miss-the-old-maid-the-old-man%e2%80%a6deep-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: The Mississippi, The Mighty Miss, The Old Maid, The Old Man\u2026Deep River&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" src=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" data=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/last-man-standing-river-songs\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent <em>Last Man Standing<\/em> about river songs<\/a>, the <strong>Mississippi<\/strong> was only allowed to be mentioned once because there are so many songs that reference it, which got me wondering: <em>Are there more songs about the Mississippi than all other river songs combined?<\/em>\u00a0I doubt it but I call upon my fellow townsfolk to settle the issue.\u00a0 So, I\u2019m looking for songs which either <em>specifically<\/em> mention the Mississippi, or that <em>clearly reference it geographically<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll start with &#8220;Big River.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>One Mississippi&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent Last Man Standing about river songs, the Mississippi was only allowed to be mentioned once because there are so many songs that reference it, which got me wondering: Are there more songs about the Mississippi than all other river songs combined?\u00a0I doubt it but I call upon my fellow townsfolk to settle <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-the-mississippi-the-mighty-miss-the-old-maid-the-old-man%e2%80%a6deep-river\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}