{"id":847,"date":"2011-05-28T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T20:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obliquepanic.net\/?p=847"},"modified":"2011-05-28T13:52:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T20:52:11","slug":"dylan-and-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/dylan-and-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Dylan and Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a nice quote from Obama from the Daily Mirror site:<br \/>\nPresident Obama said: \u201cHere\u2019s what I love about Dylan \u2013 he was exactly as you\u2019d expect he would be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wouldn\u2019t come to the rehearsal. He didn\u2019t want to take a picture with me; usually all the talent is dying to take a picture with me and Michelle before the show, but he didn\u2019t show up to that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe played The Times They Are a-Changin\u2019. A beautiful rendition. The guy is so steeped in this stuff he can come up with a new arrangement and the song sounds completely different.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinishes the song, steps off the stage &#8230; comes up, shakes my hand, sort of tips his head, gives me just a little grin and then leaves. That was our only interaction with him. And I thought, That\u2019s how you want Bob Dylan, right?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t want him to be cheesin\u2019 and grinnin\u2019 with you. You want him to be a little sceptical about the enterprise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more: http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/celebs\/news\/2011\/05\/24\/bob-dylan-at-70-115875-23152463\/#ixzz1NgNG3GXB<br \/>\nGo Camping for 95p! Vouchers collectable in the Daily and Sunday Mirror until 11th August . Click here for more information<br \/>\nfrom: http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/top-stories\/2011\/05\/24\/bob-dylan-at-70-115875-23152463\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a nice quote from Obama from the Daily Mirror site: President Obama said: \u201cHere\u2019s what I love about Dylan \u2013 he was exactly as you\u2019d expect he would be. \u201cHe wouldn\u2019t come to the rehearsal. He didn\u2019t want to take a picture with me; usually all the talent is dying to take a picture&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/dylan-and-obama\/\" class=\"button\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dylan and Obama<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[64],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dylan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/obliquepanic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}