{"id":10781,"date":"2014-06-25T00:23:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T04:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=10781"},"modified":"2014-06-25T11:31:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T15:31:50","slug":"and-now-a-message-from-natalie-merchant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=10781","title":{"rendered":"And now a message from Natalie Merchant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemerchant.com\/w\/natalie-merchant\/finding-a-voice\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/natalie_merchant.jpg\" title=\"A Conversation With Natalie Merchant\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/natalie_merchant.jpg 500w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/natalie_merchant-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quiltr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/natalie_merchant-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click the photo above for a wonderful conversation with Natalie about finding one&#8217;s voice and other questions re doing the work.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had this new recording, Natalie Merchant, in frequent play since it came out and love rolling the lyrics around &#8211; often simple, often fun to sing, full of meaning on a human level. You can listen to one of my favorites, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemerchant.com\/l\/natalie-merchant\/maggie-said\" title=\"Maggie Said\" target=\"_blank\">Maggie Said<\/a> or if you want to sample another, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nataliemerchant.com\/l\/natalie-merchant\/giving-up-everything\" title=\"Giving Up Everything\" target=\"_blank\">Giving Up Everything<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maggie said, \u201cDon\u2019t let them take that halo from your head.\u201d<br \/>\nMaggie said, \u201cI can see you turning hard now, girl; don\u2019t lose your tenderness.<br \/>\nWhat\u2019s the use in that? Darling, please.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Holding back, what did I get for all of that?<br \/>\nWhat did it count for? Tell me that.<br \/>\nCount for? Tell me that.<br \/>\nNothing, nothing, nothing, oh, nothing, that\u2019s a fact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or these lyrics from Ladybird:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know the sweetest wine, it\u2019s a witches\u2019 brew,<br \/>\npours like honey down and then burns a hole in you.<br \/>\nYeah, you may think you\u2019re done but you\u2019re never through<br \/>\nspitting out the bitterness to get the little sweetness you do.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t know how to leave<br \/>\nand you don\u2019t know where to fly.<br \/>\nYou\u2019ve got a lot of things to lose,<br \/>\nso you\u2019ve got a lot of things to hide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, you may think you\u2019re done but you\u2019re never through?<br \/>\nspitting out the bitterness to get the little sweetness you do. \u2014 Natalie Merchant <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=10781\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5,13,147,159],"tags":[522,217,36],"class_list":["post-10781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badass-ness","category-do-the-work","category-poetry-and-lyrics","category-what-im-listening-to-2","tag-do-the-work","tag-natalie-merchant","tag-poems-lyrics"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-2NT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10781"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10789,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions\/10789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}