{"id":88333,"date":"2019-08-16T05:16:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T09:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=88333"},"modified":"2019-08-16T13:21:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T17:21:13","slug":"he-shook-it-like-a-chorus-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=88333","title":{"rendered":"He Shook It Like a Chorus Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7FM8ui2ByUI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uZnXlgKHCHk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n42 years ago today, Elvis Presley died. <\/p>\n<p>We will always miss someone who sings like their &#8220;soul is at stake,&#8221; to quote Gillian Welch&#8217;s haunting song. Almost no one lives every moment &#8211; onstage or off  &#8211; like their &#8220;soul is at stake.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>As Dave Marsh wrote in his Elvis book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is no explanation. And if one listens closely to songs like \u201cHurt\u201d and \u201cI Can Help\u201d and \u201cIf I Can Dream\u201d \u2013 if one listens clear back to \u201cMystery Train\u201d and \u201cBlue Moon\u201d \u2013 that\u2019s what is truly heard: A voice, high and thrilled in the early days, lower and perplexed in the final months, seeking answers where there are none, clarity where there is none, cause where is only effect.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere, out of all this, Elvis began to seem like a man who had reached some conclusions. And so he was made into a god and a king. He was neither \u2013 he was something more American and, I think, something more heroic. Elvis Presley was an explorer of vast new landscapes of dream and illusion. He was a man who refused to be told that the best of his dreams would not come true, who refused to be defined by anyone else\u2019s conceptions.<\/p>\n<p>This is the goal of democracy, the journey on which every prospective American hero sets out. That Elvis made so much of the journey on his own is reason enough to remember him with the honor and love we reserve for the bravest among us. Such men are the only maps we can trust.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>42 years ago today, Elvis Presley died. We will always miss someone who sings like their &#8220;soul is at stake,&#8221; to quote Gillian Welch&#8217;s haunting song. Almost no one lives every moment &#8211; onstage or off &#8211; like their &#8220;soul &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=88333\">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":[17,39,23],"tags":[2095],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88333"}],"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=88333"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149397,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88333\/revisions\/149397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}