{"id":18372,"date":"2016-11-16T12:14:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T17:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18372"},"modified":"2016-11-16T12:17:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T17:17:24","slug":"lenny-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=18372","title":{"rendered":"Lenny Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always getting teed off with my Buddy and vice versa. Its amazing how we go on and get over our spats. Then he sends me something like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2016\/10\/17\/leonard-cohen-makes-it-darker :\">this New Yorker story<\/a> on the song writer Leonard Cohen. <\/p>\n<p>Being subject to brief moments of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesaurus.com\/browse\/lachrymose\/adjective\">lachrymose<\/a> I got teary not long after reading this lengthy piece about the singer concerning his message to an old lover on the eve of her death. I decided there and then to post the whole article which obliged me to read the whole thing. That was a mistake. Its a New Yorker article after all and I&#8217;m not that interested in a famous song writer that I can only identify one song with.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/_XZu64okmw8<\/p>\n<p>That it was sung on the last <strong>Saturday Night Live<\/strong> by Kate McKinnon who seemed almost apologetic for helping bring about Hillary Clinton&#8217;s defeat made a link to the Cohen story that much more seductive. Ah, But the story was written by a fan and chronicled decades of the song writer&#8217;s progress finding himself. Bleah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m always getting teed off with my Buddy and vice versa. Its amazing how we go on and get over our spats. Then he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18375,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18372\/revisions\/18375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}