{"id":1871,"date":"2008-07-07T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2008-07-07T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T18:07:00","slug":"smoke-from-a-distant-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1871","title":{"rendered":"Smoke from a Distant Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SHJbdBOeAYI\/AAAAAAAABWE\/nuGlOFYsHCw\/s1600-h\/z070708sanfordtownsend.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SHJbdBOeAYI\/AAAAAAAABWE\/nuGlOFYsHCw\/s400\/z070708sanfordtownsend.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220335472179282306\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Sanford Townsend Band<\/span>&#8216;s biggest hit was <a style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=hJDXDNxeGLE&amp;feature=related\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Smoke from a Distant Fire.&#8221;<\/span><\/a>  You may not  know the band, but I bet if you&#8217;ve heard the song once, it made an impact with it&#8217;s perfect blend of lyrics and music.  How can you not be pulled into a song that opens with:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">&#8220;You left me here on your way to paradise<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">You pulled the rug right out from under my life<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">I know where you goin&#8217; to I knew when you came home last night<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">&#8216;Cause your eyes had a mist from the smoke of a distant fire&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;\"  ><a style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=HgwXASjTuZg\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Here&#8217;s a link to a live performance of &#8220;Smoke from a Distant Fire.&#8221;<\/span><\/a>  No lip syncing or recorded instrumental tracks, and  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Sanford Townsend Band<\/span> doesn&#8217;t miss a beat.   It makes me wonder why they weren&#8217;t better known, because they sure could play.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sanford Townsend Band&#8216;s biggest hit was &#8220;Smoke from a Distant Fire.&#8221; You may not know the band, but I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}