{"id":49670,"date":"2012-02-16T12:02:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T17:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=49670"},"modified":"2012-02-16T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T17:02:07","slug":"youve-got-to-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=49670","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;ve Got to Try"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crazy busy these days, no time, but need to point you to <a href=\"http:\/\/sunsetgun.typepad.com\/sunsetgun\/2012\/02\/otis-redding-why-again-why-why-did-he-have-to-leave-us-so-early-one-of-the-most-important-influential-and-heart-stoppi.html\">Kim&#8217;s piece on Otis Redding<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yes, we&#8217;ve all heard it, we&#8217;ve heard it a lot. But listen to it. Listen to the words. In a world of glib snark, rotten communication, selfishness, narcissism, easy refusals of looking at the other damn side of a situation, walking in another man or woman&#8217;s shoes or just being real and kind, and not with extra emoticons attached to a hollow message, but real, the song is not only a gorgeous celebration of trying just that one word, it&#8217;s almost shockingly profound. This one could save more conflicts than months and months of couple&#8217;s therapy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crazy busy these days, no time, but need to point you to Kim&#8217;s piece on Otis Redding. Yes, we&#8217;ve all heard it, we&#8217;ve heard it a lot. But listen to it. Listen to the words. In a world of glib &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=49670\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49670"}],"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=49670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49671,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49670\/revisions\/49671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}