{"id":3853,"date":"2008-08-11T22:31:39","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T05:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=3853"},"modified":"2008-08-12T21:49:05","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T04:49:05","slug":"unchained-lullabies-splendor-squalor-and-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3853\/unchained-lullabies-splendor-squalor-and-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Unchained lullabies: Splendor, squalor and war&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teri Lussier sent me this clip as a celebration of Unchained in Orlando:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PufkuY-jEg4&#38;hl=en&#38;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s sweet, but I always think of this when I think of lullabies:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/puunr0R7QrY&#38;hl=en&#38;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s so brutal that it&#8217;s almost <em>unimaginably<\/em> brutal &#8212; until you look at this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/InjuredWomanGeorgia.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the real face of war. Not well-turned-out soldiers with their bootlaces smartly tied, not bombers or aircraft carriers. War is your grandmother wailing because everything she has ever known has been burned to a cinder.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Gold is a great songwriter. She wrote <em>From a Distance<\/em>, and Bette Midler couldn&#8217;t quite ruin it as a massively over-produced anthem. But Nancy Griffith, on her best days, can sing a simple song simply. This is a lullaby for the people who are not sleeping in Tbilisi.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nKpBU6H1k-Y&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teri Lussier sent me this clip as a celebration of Unchained in Orlando: That&#8217;s sweet, but I always think of this when I think of lullabies: And that&#8217;s so brutal that it&#8217;s almost unimaginably brutal &#8212; until you look at this: That&#8217;s the real face of war. Not well-turned-out soldiers with their bootlaces smartly tied, [&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":[13,24,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-casual-friday","7":"category-egoism-in-action","8":"category-group-therapy","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16848,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/16848\/unchained-melody-telling-the-brutal-truth-about-take-it-down\/","url_meta":{"origin":3853,"position":0},"title":"Unchained Melody: Telling the brutal truth about \u201cTake\u00a0It\u00a0Down.\u201d","author":"Greg Swann","date":"August 31, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"It has been claimed that John Hiatt wrote this song about cancelling the Confederate flag \u2013 but that's plainly bullshit. 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