{"id":14716,"date":"2011-06-30T09:31:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T16:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14716"},"modified":"2011-06-30T09:31:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T16:31:57","slug":"unchained-melodies-melanies-babe-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14716\/unchained-melodies-melanies-babe-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Unchained melodies: Melanie&#8217;s <em>Babe Rainbow<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Art is the stuff that sticks with you. Art is the thing that makes a permanent change in who you are. This song has been with me since I was a teenager. It&#8217;s never been of me, but it&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve always understood &#8212; even more since I started selling real estate for a living. It might-could have that impact on you, too.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KUmEL_4VvPI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a waltz, 6\/8, cdfc. Couldn&#8217;t be simpler. And yet I have this song in my head &#8212; in my soul &#8212; all the time. This is Melanie exposing the universe through the lens of her own life, and by making her life so real, so raw, so painful and yet in the end still so palpably redeemed &#8212; this really works for me. This is what art is <em>for&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art is the stuff that sticks with you. Art is the thing that makes a permanent change in who you are. This song has been with me since I was a teenager. It&#8217;s never been of me, but it&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve always understood &#8212; even more since I started selling real estate for a living. 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