{"id":16029,"date":"2012-07-04T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=16029"},"modified":"2012-07-04T11:23:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T18:23:07","slug":"unchained-melodies-darling-be-home-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16029\/unchained-melodies-darling-be-home-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Unchained melodies: Darling, be home soon."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is our tenth wedding anniversary. Cathleen and I have been a couple since January, 1998, but we got legally, lawfully married on Independence Day in 2002. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=6424\" target=\"_blank\">Our &#8220;our songs&#8221; are <em>No Myth<\/em> and <em>Thunder Road,<\/em><\/a> but there are some &#8220;my songs&#8221; that I think of often to remind myself of why I so much love being married to this woman.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SJJ1NHY5o1Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That recording brings out the jazz in the song&#8217;s DNA, but no one, so far, has done a good job of finding the country song that&#8217;s in there, too.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hLoe35y73Ss\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I understand this all the way through me. I don&#8217;t always like being around other people, but when I do, the person I like to have near me most, most often, most enduringly is Cathleen.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8220;Darling, be home soon.&#8221; I can&#8217;t think of a recording of this song I don&#8217;t like, but Derek Trucks just kills on the slide guitar at the end of this one.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MtG5bT13m8U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And we close with John Hiatt expressing a mystery I understand very well:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M929NAemwpc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is our tenth wedding anniversary. Cathleen and I have been a couple since January, 1998, but we got legally, lawfully married on Independence Day in 2002. Our &#8220;our songs&#8221; are No Myth and Thunder Road, but there are some &#8220;my songs&#8221; that I think of often to remind myself of why I so much [&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-16029","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":15522,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15522\/me-in-2012-writing-splendors-sound-track-among-other-things\/","url_meta":{"origin":16029,"position":0},"title":"Me in 2012: Writing Splendor&#8217;s sound-track, among other things.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been living for years now with my daily calendar system of staying focused on my goals. 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