{"id":3804,"date":"2008-08-19T19:18:03","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T03:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2017-09-29T14:15:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T22:15:47","slug":"ode-to-the-moral-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3804","title":{"rendered":"Ode to the Moral Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made friends through <a href=\"http:\/\/yourmoralleader.camstreams.com\">my chat room<\/a> with a music composer.&nbsp;I asked him to write an ode for me, an &quot;Ode to the Moral Leader.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>He did:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6O8j8u6XNvw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I received this ode via email while I was reading a book by Susan Casey: &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Devils-Teeth-Obsession-Survival-Americas\/dp\/080507581X\">The Devil&#8217;s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America&#8217;s Great White Sharks<\/a>&quot;<\/p>\n<p>As biologist Edward O. Wilson wrote: &quot;In a deeply tribal way, we love our monsters.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>My mom emails: &quot;You can play it at your wedding!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>A friend emails: &quot;I like it. It&#8217;s trendy, new age, unpretentious, and evocative of the great and timeless wisdom and moral guidance from our great master. Is there a disco version? Do you think you can get Air Supply to do a cover version? &quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made friends through my chat room with a music composer.&nbsp;I asked him to write an ode for me, an &quot;Ode to the Moral Leader.&quot; He did: I received this ode via email while I was reading a book by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=3804\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[676,11456,668,11455],"class_list":["post-3804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-chat-room","tag-images-photos","tag-moral-leader","tag-music-composer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117794,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions\/117794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}