{"id":1920,"date":"2008-10-16T10:23:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T15:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/10\/16\/run-on\/"},"modified":"2008-10-16T10:23:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T15:23:38","slug":"run-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/16\/run-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Run On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I must not be a very good atheist, because I love gospel music.  Here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blind_Boys_Of_Alabama\">Blind Boys of Alabama<\/a>, with &#8220;Run On.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blindboys.com\/\">Boys<\/a> first got together in 1939.  And they&#8217;re not some ongoing concern whose membership turns over, like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; their current lead singer, Jimmy Lee Carter, was a founding member of the group.  Other charter members were active until recently:  vocalist Clarence Fountain cut down on touring in 2006, and George Scott (singing lead in this track) passed away in 2005.  They gained a bit of late-career notoriety when their cover of Tom Waits&#8217; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mzIuUW9VUr0&amp;feature=related\">Way Down in the Hole<\/a>&#8221; was used as the theme song for the first season of <em>The Wire<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the lack of substantive blogging of late.  Science comes first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I must not be a very good atheist, because I love gospel music. Here are the Blind Boys of Alabama, with &#8220;Run On.&#8221; The Boys first got together in 1939. And they&#8217;re not some ongoing concern whose membership turns over, like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; their current lead singer, Jimmy Lee Carter, was a founding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}