{"id":28063,"date":"2019-03-30T14:34:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T19:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28063"},"modified":"2019-03-30T14:34:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T19:34:37","slug":"briefly-new-song-from-pat-terry-questions-the-good-old-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28063","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: New song from Pat Terry questions \u2018the good old days\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you talk about &#8220;the good old days,&#8221; it&#8217;s easy to forget the past wasn&#8217;t so great for many of our fellow Americans. (I made this point in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=27901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What if \u2018the Good Old Days\u2019 were never as good as you remember?<\/a>\u201d) On Friday, I discovered the new album of one of my all-time favorite artists was available and he has an excellent song which makes a similar point. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patterryonline.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pat Terry<\/a> was one of the pioneers of modern Christian music in the 1970s and his new song, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ENs3WfWniVw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Whose Good Ol\u2019 Days?<\/a>\u2019 reminisces about the differences between the black and white communities where he grew up in Georgia. Without pushing guilt or anger on those who might have been blind to the issue at the time, the song gently covers ground which is similar to what I wrote about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you talk about &#8220;the good old days,&#8221; it&#8217;s easy to forget the past wasn&#8217;t so great for many of our fellow Americans. (I made this point in \u201cWhat if \u2018the Good Old Days\u2019 were never as good as you remember?\u201d) On Friday, I discovered the new album of one of my all-time favorite artists <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=28063\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","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}},"categories":[556],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-briefly","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-7iD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28064,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28063\/revisions\/28064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}