{"id":15848,"date":"2012-04-10T13:55:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T20:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15848"},"modified":"2012-04-10T13:55:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T20:55:37","slug":"unchained-melodies-when-you-say-nothing-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15848\/unchained-melodies-when-you-say-nothing-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Unchained melodies: &#8220;When you say nothing at all.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Mothertongue day for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/selfadoration.com\/from-man-alive-speaking-in-tongues\/30\" target=\"_blank\">Man Alive!<\/a>,<\/em> so it seems like a fine time to celebrate the best Mothertongue song ever written, <em>When you say nothing at all,<\/em> written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz and performed here by the incomparable Keith Whitley:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1GpXYKp7_Qw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here it is again, covered by Allison Krauss and Union Station:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"244\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cJpQIYw-yXM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Makes me cry every time I hear it. That&#8217;s what art is for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Mothertongue day for Man Alive!, so it seems like a fine time to celebrate the best Mothertongue song ever written, When you say nothing at all, written by Paul Overstreet and Don Schlitz and performed here by the incomparable Keith Whitley: Here it is again, covered by Allison Krauss and Union Station: Makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":""},"categories":[24,212,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-group-therapy","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15892,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15892\/from-man-alive-the-integrity-of-art\/","url_meta":{"origin":15848,"position":0},"title":"From Man Alive! &#8211; &#8220;The integrity of art.&#8221;","author":"Greg Swann","date":"April 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"From: Man Alive! 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