{"id":8914,"date":"2025-06-23T05:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8914"},"modified":"2025-06-28T22:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T22:18:09","slug":"manson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8914","title":{"rendered":"manson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Read about the Beach Boys song \u201cNever Learn Not to Love\u201d,  though the band never openly acknowledged it was written by Charles Manson. Dennis Wilson took Manson in for a time, gave him studio access, even reworked that song from Manson\u2019s original, \u201cCease to Exist.\u201d Reading it now, it feels like <em>Once Upon a Time in Hollywood<\/em> could have been Dennis\u2019s story more than anyone\u2019s, a man floating between the golden sun of California pop and the undertow of something rotten. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In grade 11, I knew a guy who played drums and had a bootleg tape of the Manson Family jamming. We didn\u2019t know much only that they were \u201csupposed\u201d to be scary and mad. That, in our 17-year-old minds, made them fascinating. Somehow, we decided that being musicians <em>and<\/em> being in jail was proof of edge, authenticity. We confused notoriety with depth. Back then, darkness seemed like a kind of wisdom, as if being near it meant we knew something others didn\u2019t. But that wasn\u2019t knowledge, just a myth wearing sunglasses. Wisdom doesn\u2019t need infamy. It lives quietly, where no one\u2019s looking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read about the Beach Boys song \u201cNever Learn Not to Love\u201d, though the band never openly acknowledged it was written by Charles Manson. Dennis Wilson took Manson in for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=8914\" 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":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-8914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914","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=8914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}