{"id":239,"date":"2000-09-12T22:29:40","date_gmt":"2000-09-12T22:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/09\/12\/giving_me_stren\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T20:15:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T04:15:34","slug":"giving_me_stren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/09\/12\/giving_me_stren\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Me Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019m listening to one of my birthday treats,<\/strong> Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach&#8217;s <i><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00000AFFF\/therumpusroom02\" >Painted from Memory<\/a>.<\/i> Although I\u2019m fond of them both, I never had much of an urge to get the album until I rented <i><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00000JMOE\/therumpusroom02\" >Grace of My Heart<\/a>,<\/i> a sort of dreadful movie filled with wonderful music. <i>God Give Me strength,<\/i> the big showstopper penned by Elvis and Burt, gives me chills whenever I hear it. I like the Kristen Vigard&#8217;s movie version better (get it <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00000GC0V\/therumpusroom02\" >here<\/a>), but the album one is also sublime, very well suited to Elvis voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m listening to one of my birthday treats, Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach&#8217;s Painted from Memory. Although I\u2019m fond of them both, I never had much of an urge to get the album until I rented Grace of My Heart, a sort of dreadful movie filled with wonderful music. God Give Me strength, the big &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/09\/12\/giving_me_stren\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Giving Me Strength&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracultural"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70863,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/70863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}