{"id":162892,"date":"2020-11-03T08:45:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T13:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=162892"},"modified":"2020-11-03T14:33:08","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T19:33:08","slug":"you-only-get-one-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=162892","title":{"rendered":"You only get one shot."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5p3iMZBzW7M\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nBarack Obama used to listen to &#8220;Lose Yourself&#8221; backstage before he gave a big speech. It got him pumped up. It gets everyone pumped up. It gets me pumped up and I have listened to this song probably 10,000 times. I love that Eminem gave permission to Biden to use this song for Biden&#8217;s final campaign advertisement. Eminem almost never licenses his music to anyone for anything. But he said Yes to this. It&#8217;s not surprising, all things considered, particularly with Eminem&#8217;s attempts in Michigan right now to make it easier for people to vote &#8230; opening up sporting stadiums so that more people can vote, and more people can vote safely, what with Covid. Also not surprising considering his politics, in general, but still: I really like that he gave permission to Biden for this. (Someone joked on Twitter that 45 keeps getting Cease and Desist letters for using people&#8217;s songs at his rallies. Seriously: have these people ever listened to the lyrics of &#8220;Born in the USA&#8221;? I swear to God, it&#8217;s like the Reagan era all over again. All they hear is the title and it validates their xenophobia and racism. These fuckin&#8217; morons. Anyway, so 45 keeps using songs and being told to stop, and Biden asks to use Eminem&#8217;s #1 most iconic song, his most famous song, his Oscar-winning song, the song most associated with him, and Em says &#8220;Yes.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I voted via secure dropbox in the second week of October, since I would be out of town for the rest of the month, and remain out of town, and may never go BACK to town if I can help it. In the past three months I have spent a total of 3 weeks in my apartment. I finally got a notification just four days ago from the VOTE BOT that my vote was counted. No time like the present. You had me worried there for a second, bot.<\/p>\n<p>Bad bad vibes on the streets today. Stay safe out there. Vote if you haven&#8217;t already. I&#8217;m holed up with a friend for the duration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barack Obama used to listen to &#8220;Lose Yourself&#8221; backstage before he gave a big speech. It got him pumped up. It gets everyone pumped up. It gets me pumped up and I have listened to this song probably 10,000 times. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=162892\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,39],"tags":[1555,174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162892"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162892"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162937,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162892\/revisions\/162937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}