{"id":9331,"date":"2010-09-25T16:56:24","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T21:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=9331"},"modified":"2010-09-25T20:04:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T01:04:05","slug":"to-be-young-gifted-and-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=9331","title":{"rendered":"To be young, gifted and black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard tell that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2gLVvsy7TXE\" target=\"_blank\">Nina Simone<\/a> was a troubled woman, a diva but not in a traditional sense; she was complex and haunted and you can tell by her voice as she sings lines that resonate with lines between the lines &#8230; how she seems to carry a weight of life older than her years.<\/p>\n<p>Do the greatest artists spring from roiling and turmoil or is it possible to <em>see<\/em> and <em>sing<\/em> life from the vantage point of comfort?<\/p>\n<p>Hard to say. Here is a snapshot of Tin with a horse on his head.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9332\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?attachment_id=9332\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/TinHorseHead.jpg?fit=450%2C337\" data-orig-size=\"450,337\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;BlackBerry 8530&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TinHorseHead\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/TinHorseHead.jpg?fit=450%2C337\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9332\" title=\"TinHorseHead\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/TinHorseHead.jpg?resize=450%2C337\" alt=\"TinHorseHead\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/TinHorseHead.jpg?w=450 450w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dangermond.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/TinHorseHead.jpg?resize=300%2C224 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard tell that Nina Simone was a troubled woman, a diva but not in a traditional sense; she was complex and haunted and you can tell by her voice as she sings lines that resonate with lines between the lines &#8230; how she seems to carry a weight of life older than her years. Do the greatest artists spring from roiling and turmoil or is it possible to see and sing life from the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-2qv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9343,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331\/revisions\/9343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}