{"id":681,"date":"2008-12-03T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2008-12-03T05:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T13:35:00","slug":"good-bye-odetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/good-bye-odetta\/","title":{"rendered":"Good-bye Odetta"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IwnSQPl-J_I\/STaLeOecEXI\/AAAAAAAABE4\/cBlHGhNK6Go\/s1600-h\/Odetta.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 233px;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IwnSQPl-J_I\/STaLeOecEXI\/AAAAAAAABE4\/cBlHGhNK6Go\/s400\/Odetta.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5275557364909216114\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a> Odetta (1930-2008)<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/03\/arts\/music\/03odetta.html?_r=1&amp;emc=eta1\">NYT<\/a> obituary. From which, these quotes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/p\/rosa_parks\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Rosa Parks\">&#8220;Rosa Parks<\/a>, the woman who started the boycott of segregated buses in Montgomery, Ala., was once asked which songs meant the most to her. She replied, \u201cAll of the songs Odetta sings.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bob Dylan, referring to [her first solo album, \u201cOdetta Sings Ballads and Blues,\u201d] said in a 1978 interview, \u201cThe first thing that turned me on to folk singing was Odetta.\u201d He said he heard something \u201cvital and personal,\u201d and added, \u201cI learned all the songs on that record.\u201d It was her first, and the songs were \u201cMule Skinner,\u201d \u201cJack of Diamonds,\u201d \u201cWater Boy,\u201d \u201c \u2019Buked and Scorned.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Odetta (1930-2008) Check out the NYT obituary. From which, these quotes: &#8220;Rosa Parks, the woman who started the boycott of segregated buses in Montgomery, Ala., was once asked which songs meant the most to&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}