{"id":3248,"date":"2022-04-26T21:55:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T04:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2022-04-26T22:50:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T05:50:07","slug":"second-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/2022\/04\/26\/second-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t need you to worry for me ’cause I’m alright
\nI don’t want you to tell me it’s time to come home
\nI don’t care what you say anymore this is my life<\/p>\n

Go ahead with your own life
\nLeave me alone<\/p>\n

–B. Joel, in the year I graduated first<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It may well be that this lyric is grunting exactly what Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ grunts; that it’s a tepid paean to male ego. <\/p>\n

But I would propose that it is secretly saying the opposite, or at the least permitting the listener to acknowledge the existence of the opposite–that I do need you to worry for me but can’t afford to let that feeling loose.<\/p>\n

Which would be both more poetic, and more true sometimes.<\/p>\n

I bounce between the two poles. Neither is right, nor wrong, always.<\/p>\n

There’s a longer version of this post yet to be written.<\/p>\n

For now this will do. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t need you to worry for me ’cause I’m alright I don’t want you to tell me it’s time to come home I don’t care what you say anymore this is my life Go ahead with your own life Leave me alone –B. Joel, in the year I graduated first It may well be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3249,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3248\/revisions\/3249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}