{"id":9870,"date":"2015-07-14T12:05:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T16:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9870"},"modified":"2015-07-14T12:05:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T16:05:37","slug":"thirteen-songs-about-forgiveness-mockingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2015\/07\/thirteen-songs-about-forgiveness-mockingbird.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Thirteen Songs About Forgiveness&#8221;: Mockingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>with some images of how to do it, when you need to:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026Given its origin in the blues, rock n roll, and pop music more generally, comes by its emotional palette honestly: desire, frustration, hurt, despair, sadness, anger\u2014these are the primary colors of the form. There are gazillions of songs that plead for a second chance (\u201cI Want You Back\u201d), gazillions of songs of repentance and regret. There are gazillions more about standing one\u2019s ground, about enough being enough. But forgiveness itself is different matter. Not exactly the sexiest of subjects. An anthem about forgiveness will not get a party started\u2014it may even spoil one. Revenge is much more apt to get fists pumping. Or maybe it\u2019s just too hard to do forgiveness justice in less than four minutes without sounding trite (not that that\u2019s stopped anyone before\u2026). Whatever the case, examples are few and far between. With that in mind, here are a few options for your listening pleasure:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbird.com\/2015\/07\/thirteen-songs-about-forgiveness-not-written-by-don-henley\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>with some images of how to do it, when you need to: \u2026Given its origin in the blues, rock n roll, and pop music more generally, comes by its emotional palette honestly: desire, frustration, hurt, despair, sadness, anger\u2014these are the primary colors of the form. There are gazillions of songs that plead for a second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,7],"tags":[38,11,30,282],"class_list":["post-9870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-mackerel-snapping","tag-forgiveness","tag-his-banner-over-me-was-love","tag-mackerel-snapping-2","tag-mockingbird"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Thirteen Songs About Forgiveness&quot;: Mockingbird<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"with some images of how to do it, when you need to: ...Given its origin in the blues, rock n roll, and pop music more generally, comes by its emotional\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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