{"id":5544,"date":"2019-06-19T03:51:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T03:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=5544"},"modified":"2019-06-19T03:51:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T03:51:49","slug":"hallelujah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=5544","title":{"rendered":"hallelujah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9jdkt\" data-offset-key=\"9qqjs-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9qqjs-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"9qqjs-0-0\">The first time I heard Hallelujah by L. Cohen I thought the lyric was about someone trying to get laid. Over the years it seems to have gained a second life and a third life, frequently covered. Maybe it is just me, but all the accomplished and earnest singers make it sound like it&#8217;s about a spiritual epiphany, as though it is about a reckoning of God. <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9jdkt\" data-offset-key=\"4nh66-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4nh66-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4nh66-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"9jdkt\" data-offset-key=\"epv4u-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"epv4u-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"epv4u-0-0\">I just reread the lyrics, he was trying to score.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I heard Hallelujah by L. Cohen I thought the lyric was about someone trying to get laid. Over the years it seems to have gained a second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=5544\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-5544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}