{"id":754,"date":"2011-03-29T09:51:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T16:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=754"},"modified":"2011-09-17T14:42:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T21:42:12","slug":"country-joe-and-the-fish-at-woodstock-fixin-to-die-rag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"Country Joe and the Fish at Woodstock: &#8220;Fixin&#8217; to Die Rag&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fixin&#8217; to Die Rag&#8221; is one of the best anti-war songs of\u00c2\u00a0the period. It&#8217;s sad, but we seem to have forgotten all the lessons of the Viet Nam War, and we&#8217;re right back where we started&#8211;doing it again in Iraq\u00c2\u00a0and Afghanistan and Libya and places we don&#8217;t even know about because the &#8220;national security state&#8221; doesn&#8217;t\u00c2\u00a0tell us. Our job is just to pay for\u00c2\u00a0covert action, not ask questions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/countryjoe.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-756 alignright\" title=\"countryjoe\" src=\"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/countryjoe-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>History could be so valuable if we would only learn from it, but we never do.\u00c2\u00a0Like Country Joe says, Give me an &#8220;F&#8230;., etc&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>Like Joe, that&#8217;s about all I can say to sum up these issues.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dATyZBEeDJ4\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dATyZBEeDJ4<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Fixin&#8217; to Die Rag&#8221; is one of the best anti-war songs of\u00c2\u00a0the period. It&#8217;s sad, but we seem to have forgotten all the lessons of the Viet Nam War, and we&#8217;re right back where we started&#8211;doing it again in Iraq\u00c2\u00a0and Afghanistan and Libya and places we don&#8217;t even know about because the &#8220;national security state&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135,137],"tags":[189,190,191],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}