{"id":801,"date":"2009-12-13T12:19:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T18:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/?p=801"},"modified":"2023-09-29T18:41:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T23:41:56","slug":"its-all-over-now-baby-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/its-all-over-now-baby-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s All Over Now Baby Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.<br \/>\nForget the dead you&#8217;ve left, they will not follow you.<br \/>\nThe vagabond who&#8217;s rapping at your door<br \/>\nIs standing in the clothes that you once wore.<br \/>\nStrike another match, go start anew<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s all over now, Baby Blue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bob Dylan said that.  I really wish Bob would stop by sometime and I continue to believe that he will.<\/p>\n<p>Stuff I might list at eBay today, if I run Things as seven day auctions, ends too close to Christmas (the 20th) for me to promise to get it there &#8220;on time&#8221;.  People know that.<\/p>\n<p>I could run some short durations and squeeze a few sparks out of the coming week but I don&#8217;t think I will.  I think I will generally put down my guns now.<\/p>\n<p>2009 was a harsh year, don&#8217;t you think?  Well, especially if the Post Office gets that two hundred dollar check they owe me into my pocket, it was much kinder to me than it was a lot of people.<\/p>\n<p>I wound up with a couple hundred dollars.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s better than 133 US banks so far, and I&#8217;m not in court bickering about any of my mergers or acquisitions or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Two of my closest friends died this year; they were from the same era, and I am now missing the verifying other party in two-thirds of my stories about my &#8220;formative years&#8221;.  In conversations with both of them before they did that, they both mentioned that &#8220;the money&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean diddily-squat.  I am choosing to believe that.<\/p>\n<p>That isn&#8217;t to say that we might not play &#8220;radio station&#8221; a little and churn out  a few of our Greatest Hits or something but tonight&#8217;s launch will be intentionally &#8220;soft&#8221;, or throw-away, as we keep the place but don&#8217;t crowd too closely up to the holiday.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-801-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Its-All-Over-Now-Baby-Blue.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Its-All-Over-Now-Baby-Blue.mp3\">http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Its-All-Over-Now-Baby-Blue.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- WordPress Posts --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:468px;height:60px\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3748068889732192\" data-ad-slot=\"6038161031\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script><br \/>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<br \/>\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Large Rectangle --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3748068889732192\" data-ad-slot=\"1055474237\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script><br \/>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<br \/>\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;&#8230;..sneaking up on the Silent Night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[204,482],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thinking","tag-christmas","tag-ebay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98521,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions\/98521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}