{"id":717,"date":"2025-03-10T15:21:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T15:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=717"},"modified":"2025-03-10T15:21:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T15:21:50","slug":"mm-1968","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2025\/03\/10\/mm-1968\/","title":{"rendered":"MM &#8211; 1968"},"content":{"rendered":"\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=\"HONEY (Lyrics) - BOBBY GOLDSBORO\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rZiEY3O-FWk?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 class=\"has-white-background-color has-background\"><strong>&#8220;Honey&#8221;, also known as &#8220;Honey (I Miss You)&#8221;, is a song written by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bobby_Russell\">Bobby Russell<\/a>. He originally produced it with former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kingston_Trio\">Kingston Trio<\/a>\u00a0member\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Shane\">Bob Shane<\/a>, who was the first to release the song. It was then given to American singer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bobby_Goldsboro\">Bobby Goldsboro<\/a>, who recorded it for his 1968\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Honey_(Bobby_Goldsboro_album)\">album of the same name<\/a>, originally titled\u00a0<em>Pledge of Love<\/em>. Goldsboro&#8217;s version was a hit, reaching No. 1 in several countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In the song, the narrator mourns his absent wife, and the song begins with him looking at a tree in their garden, remembering how &#8220;it was just a twig&#8221; on the day she planted it. Only in the third verse is it finally revealed that &#8220;one day&#8230;the angels came,&#8221; and that his wife had died.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Honey&#8221;, also known as &#8220;Honey (I Miss You)&#8221;, is a song written by\u00a0Bobby Russell. He originally produced it with former\u00a0Kingston Trio\u00a0member\u00a0Bob Shane, who was the first to release the song. It was then given to American singer\u00a0Bobby Goldsboro, who recorded it for his 1968\u00a0album of the same name, originally titled\u00a0Pledge of Love. Goldsboro&#8217;s version was [&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-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}