{"id":4,"date":"2009-01-11T01:52:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T01:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimnovaksongwriter.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2009-01-14T14:30:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T14:30:28","slug":"%e2%80%9csuch-a-cold-and-a-bitter-time%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimnovaksongwriter.com\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSuch a cold and a bitter time\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the 12th of January nears, I like to play a song by Michael Smith (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artistsofnote.com\/michael\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.artistsofnote.com\/michael\/<\/a>) called \u201cThe Ballad of Dan Moody.\u201d\u00a0 Some know it as \u201cRoving Cowboy.\u201d\u00a0 Three cowboys rob a train on the 12th of January, which is described as \u201csuch a cold and a bitter time.\u201d\u00a0 This is a song as dramatic, and cinematic, as any folk song I can think of.\u00a0 Chuck Mitchell (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchellsong.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.mitchellsong.com<\/a>) has done a riveting version of it in concert, calling it a song about doing the wrong thing for the right reasons.\u00a0 A rodeo chum of the three cowboys tries to keep them on the straight and narrow, but ultimately there is a terrible tragedy. Accompanying the sheet music for this song, in Michael\u2019s book \u201cSongs from Bird Avenue,\u201d where Michael has the song in F, but I play it in G, there\u2019s a photo of a little kid playing cowboy and shooting a couple of toy six-guns.\u00a0 Been there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the 12th of January nears, I like to play a song by Michael Smith (http:\/\/www.artistsofnote.com\/michael\/) called \u201cThe Ballad of Dan Moody.\u201d\u00a0 Some know it as \u201cRoving Cowboy.\u201d\u00a0 Three cowboys rob a train on the 12th of January, which is described as \u201csuch a cold and a bitter time.\u201d\u00a0 This is a song as dramatic, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimnovaksongwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimnovaksongwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimnovaksongwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimnovaksongwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimnovaksongwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jimnovaksongwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"https:\/\/jimnovaksongwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimnovaksongwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimnovaksongwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimnovaksongwriter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}