{"id":2649,"date":"2013-09-17T22:38:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T22:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2013-11-08T05:18:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T05:18:38","slug":"happy-birthday-hank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2649","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Hank!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Hank Williams&#8217; birthday.<\/p>\n<p>He was born in 1923 so this is what would be his 90th.  <\/p>\n<p>I love many of his songs.  <\/p>\n<p>Like this cover of <em>I&#8217;m So Lonesome I Could Cry<\/em> by A.A. Bondy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VnzDFa-ioDg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just wonderful.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1077\">I heard him play this live thanks to my friend, Anne<\/a>.  What a treat!<\/p>\n<p>My hat is off to anyone covering this song.  I&#8217;d be about to sob by the end.  Maybe that is the Hank effect?  <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Elvis covering it in Hawaii.  In the intro he tells the audience that he&#8217;s about to sing the saddest song he&#8217;s ever heard.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pzLo3Xxjw-c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yep.  <\/p>\n<p>I think that everyone has covered this.<\/p>\n<p>Al Green!  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qIdj5uFung4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just one of those songs.  <\/p>\n<p>Happy Tuesday!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Hank Williams&#8217; birthday. He was born in 1923 so this is what would be his 90th. I love many of his songs. Like this cover of I&#8217;m So Lonesome I Could Cry by A.A. Bondy. Just wonderful. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=2649\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2649"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2673,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649\/revisions\/2673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}