{"id":294,"date":"2011-04-01T06:18:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T10:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/slacktivist\/?p=294"},"modified":"2011-04-01T06:18:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T10:18:10","slug":"jam-jazzman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2011\/04\/01\/jam-jazzman\/","title":{"rendered":"Jam Jazzman"},"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 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Life is a path lit only by the light of those I\u2019ve loved \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JbHI1yI1Ndk\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jam<\/a>,\u201d Michael Jackson<br>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HOut6EsTRQc\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">James<\/a>,\u201d Huffamoose<br>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ii1tc493bZM\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">James Bond Theme<\/a>,\u201d Leroy Holmes<br>\n\u201cJamey\u2019s Got the Blues,\u201d Randy Stonehill<br>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gPsorSm1PpQ\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jane Says<\/a>,\u201d Jane\u2019s Addiction<br>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bXnEYwyc7zc\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jangling Jack<\/a>,\u201d Nick Cave &amp; The Bad Seeds<br>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yBt3_TuhuEw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Janie Jones<\/a>,\u201d The Clash<br>\n\u201cJasper Johns,\u201d Twitchen Vibes<br>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xXiZfkwtbZw\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jayne\u2019s Blue Wish<\/a>,\u201d Tom Waits<br>\n\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KjeXYbZ4Nd8\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jazzman<\/a>,\u201d Carole King<\/p>\n<p>Since this list starts with Michael Jackson, here\u2019s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B-NpATPAa08\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">bonus link to his favorite song<\/a>. (That\u2019s Janelle Monae singing a Charlie Chaplin tune \u2014 spanning a century of American artistic genius.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">After an unfortunate string of bottom-tier Randy Stonehill songs cropping up in these weekly alphabetical slices, today we at least get some middle-tier Stonehill. Hmm, maybe when we get to the U\u2019s, we can arrange it to include \u201cUntil Your Love Broke Through.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is a path lit only by the light of those I\u2019ve loved \u2026 \u201cJam,\u201d Michael Jackson \u201cJames,\u201d Huffamoose \u201cJames Bond Theme,\u201d Leroy Holmes \u201cJamey\u2019s Got the Blues,\u201d Randy Stonehill \u201cJane Says,\u201d Jane\u2019s Addiction \u201cJangling Jack,\u201d Nick Cave &amp; The Bad Seeds \u201cJanie Jones,\u201d The Clash \u201cJasper Johns,\u201d Twitchen Vibes \u201cJayne\u2019s Blue Wish,\u201d Tom Waits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[239],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-music"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jam Jazzman<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Life is a path lit only by the light of those I&#039;ve loved ... &quot;Jam,&quot; 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