{"id":73,"date":"2005-01-21T16:48:41","date_gmt":"2005-01-21T20:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/21\/old-habits-die-hard\/"},"modified":"2005-01-21T16:49:39","modified_gmt":"2005-01-21T20:49:39","slug":"old-habits-die-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/21\/old-habits-die-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Old habits die hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yanking still more (months old) content from the Guardian, is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/arts\/fridayreview\/story\/0,12102,1359267,00.html\">piece on Shane McGowan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nShane MacGowan doesn&#8217;t remember much about leaving the Pogues, except this: &#8220;I was glad to get out alive.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The piece is a nice combination of &#8220;tales of excess&#8221; and &#8220;he&#8217;s not really like that&#8221;, which paints a bit of a picture. (Actually in the article he comes off as much more sane that he did in that DVD documentary\/biography I bought last year.)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and one other thing: how is Dave Simpson a music writer for a major paper, and he doesn&#8217;t know that that quote <strong>is<\/strong> a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leonardcohen.com\/DearHeather\/music.cgi?album_id=1&#038;song_id=6\">lyric<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Yanking still more (months old) content from the Guardian, is a piece on Shane McGowan. Shane MacGowan doesn&#8217;t remember much about leaving the Pogues, except this: &#8220;I was glad to get out alive.&#8221; The piece is a nice combination of &#8220;tales of excess&#8221; and &#8220;he&#8217;s not really like that&#8221;, which paints a bit of a picture. (Actually in the article&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/21\/old-habits-die-hard\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-1b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}