{"id":8448,"date":"2012-11-02T16:10:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8448"},"modified":"2012-11-02T16:10:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:10:58","slug":"the-garden-of-allah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8448","title":{"rendered":"The Garden of Allah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am loving The Garden of Allah, the 1995 track by Don Henley.<\/p>\n<p>The track shuffled on to my iPod on the way in to work this morning. I soaked up the lyrical outpouring and hit &#8216;replay&#8217; straight away.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, it&#8217;s a modern-day parable about the Devil arriving in Hollywood and discovering he has become obsolete; humankind has perfected the practice of evil and no longer requires his assistance.<\/p>\n<p>The song makes many barbed references to the media circus we now take for granted, and underscores the &#8216;expert&#8217; witnesses at the OJ Simpson murder case.<\/p>\n<p>The video features a very well-known Hollywood actor as The Devil.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vpP017P3D6k?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"315\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vpP017P3D6k?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am loving The Garden of Allah, the 1995 track by Don Henley. The track shuffled on to my iPod on the way in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}