{"id":2131,"date":"2011-07-04T19:14:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T02:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2011-07-04T19:23:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T02:23:44","slug":"me-and-paul-revere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=2131","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Me and Paul Revere&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not generally thought of as one of America&#8217;s great musicians nor historians, comedian Steve Martin performed his new blue grass ballad, &#8220;<em>Me and Paul Revere<\/em>&#8221; on the Mall at the annual <strong>Capitol Fourth Concert<\/strong> in Washington DC.  Martin tells the story of that famous ride from the perspective of the horse who carried the dedicated patriot through the countryside that fateful night&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"460\" height=\"292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N4sNcbsJDmM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apparently Sarah Palin got it right and even that bastion of Hollywood liberals, Steve Martin, acknowledges it (although begrudgingly at best in his introduction to the song tonight):  After being captured, Revere warned the British that the rebels in Lexington were armed and ready to fight for their freedom.  Who knew?  Evidently not many of the liberal intelligentsia who learned everything they know about that episode of American history from a nineteenth century poem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not generally thought of as one of America&#8217;s great musicians nor historians, comedian Steve Martin performed his new blue grass ballad, &#8220;Me and Paul Revere&#8221; on the Mall at the annual Capitol Fourth Concert in Washington DC. Martin tells the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=2131\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xq4i-yn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2134,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}