{"id":108,"date":"2006-06-09T22:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/the-grateful-dead\/"},"modified":"2022-09-11T00:40:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T00:40:46","slug":"the-grateful-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/the-grateful-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grateful Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>lol.  you have to love musicians for not being afraid to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/programmes\/newsnight\/5064170.stm\">call it like they see it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>JPB:<\/strong> I&#8217;ve got good news and bad news and good news. And the good news is that you guys have managed to buy every major legislative body on the planet, and the courts are even with you. So you&#8217;ve done a great job there and you should congratulate yourself.<\/p>\n<p>But you know the problem is &#8211; the bad news is that you&#8217;re up against a dedicated foe that is younger and smarter that you are and will be alive when you&#8217;re dead. You&#8217;re 55 years old and these kids are 17 and they&#8217;re just smarter than you. So you&#8217;re gonna lose that one.<\/p>\n<p>But the good news is that you guys are mean sons of bitches and you&#8217;ve been figuring out ways of ripping off audiences and artists for centuries&#8230;.. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; John Perry Barlow, one-time lyricist for The Grateful Dead, and co-founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\">EFF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lol. you have to love musicians for not being afraid to call it like they see it: JPB: I&#8217;ve got good news and bad news and good news. And the good news is that you guys have managed to buy every major legislative body on the planet, and the courts are even with you. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mccambridge.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}