{"id":378,"date":"2006-08-26T13:21:42","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T18:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/?p=378"},"modified":"2006-08-26T15:01:45","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T20:01:45","slug":"mctell-they-got-me-killed-for-forging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/08\/26\/mctell-they-got-me-killed-for-forging\/","title":{"rendered":"McTell:  They got me killed for forging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nicmcphee\/211470590\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/76\/211470590_1b1ff0c5ed_t.jpg?resize=72%2C100\" width=\"72\" height=\"100\" alt=\"The lady sings the (wood frog) blues\" align='right' hspace='10' vspace='10' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI was listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/pandora.com\/people\/mcphee3\">my American Roots Music Radio<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/pandora.com\/\">Pandora<\/a> and this smoldering couplet drifted by:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They got me killed for forging<br \/>\nand I can&#8217;t even write my name<br \/>\n    &#8212; &#8220;Death cell blues&#8221; by by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blind_willie_mctell\">Blind Willie McTell<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Man, there&#8217;s an awful lot of history and commentary there in 13 words.<\/p>\n<p>I had to rush right out and buy it, and used that as an excuse to try out <a href=\"http:\/\/emusic.com\/\">emusic<\/a>, which Chris Hamrin had been saying some nice things about.<\/p>\nNo tag for this post.\n\t<h4>Related posts<\/h4>\n\t<ul class=\"st-related-posts\">\n\t<li>No related posts.<\/li>\n\t<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to my American Roots Music Radio on Pandora and this smoldering couplet drifted by: They got me killed for forging and I can&#8217;t even write my name &#8212; &#8220;Death cell blues&#8221; by by Blind Willie McTell Man, there&#8217;s an awful lot of history and commentary there in 13 words. I had to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2006\/08\/26\/mctell-they-got-me-killed-for-forging\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;McTell:  They got me killed for forging&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[2,13,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p90sy-66","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":882,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/11\/30\/yes-we-can-improve-the-security-of-our-e-communications\/","url_meta":{"origin":378,"position":0},"title":"Yes we can (improve the security of our e-communications)","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"30 Nov 08","format":false,"excerpt":"Instead of preventing Obama from using e-mail and his Blackberry, we should use this as an opportunity to move the whole country forward in terms of the security of our electronic communications.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Computing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Computing","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/computing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":432,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/01\/30\/a-far-better-use-of-little-flags\/","url_meta":{"origin":378,"position":1},"title":"A far better use of little flags","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"30 Jan 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in September I had a good moan about some students here sticking a bunch of American flags in the ground to commorate September 11th, 2001. Desert Donkey just gave me a pointer to a far better use of little flags. At the University of Oregon a group is setting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Photography&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Photography","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/category\/photography\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":599,"url":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2007\/07\/17\/transforming-an-historic-landmark\/","url_meta":{"origin":378,"position":2},"title":"Transforming an historic landmark","author":"Nic McPhee","date":"17 Jul 07","format":false,"excerpt":"Morris is lucky to have a wonderful art deco movie theatre from the 1940's that is still a single screen first run theatre. It went up for sale this summer, and there were concerns that we might lose our cinema. 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