{"id":699,"date":"2025-01-27T18:06:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=699"},"modified":"2025-01-27T18:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:09:06","slug":"mm-1-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2025\/01\/27\/mm-1-27\/","title":{"rendered":"MM- 1\/27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>A serious oldie!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Animals - House of the Rising Sun (lyrics)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aac5heIaz1M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The House of the Rising Sun&#8221; is a traditional folk song (), sometimes called &#8220;Rising Sun Blues&#8221;. It tells of a person&#8217;s life gone wrong in the city of New Orleans ( (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Folk_music\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Folk_music<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans<\/a>))). Many versions also urge a sibling or parents and children to avoid the same fate. The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964 by the British rock band the Animals, was a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart ( (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Animals\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Animals<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UK_Singles_Chart\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UK_Singles_Chart<\/a>))) and in the US and Canada. As a traditional folk song recorded by an electric rock band, it has been described as the &#8220;first folk rock (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_House_of_the_Rising_Sun#cite_note-the_age-1\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_House_of_the_Rising_Sun#cite_note-the_age-1<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Folk_rock\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Folk_rock<\/a>)))<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-background-color has-background\">The song was first collected in Appalachia () in the 1930s, but probably has its roots in traditional English folk song ( (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appalachia\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appalachia<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_folk_music\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English_folk_music<\/a>))). It is listed as number 6393 () in the Roud Folk Song Index <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A serious oldie! &#8220;The House of the Rising Sun&#8221; is a traditional folk song (), sometimes called &#8220;Rising Sun Blues&#8221;. It tells of a person&#8217;s life gone wrong in the city of New Orleans ( (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Folk_music (https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans))). Many versions also urge a sibling or parents and children to avoid the same fate. The most successful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}