{"id":768,"date":"2025-07-21T16:17:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=768"},"modified":"2025-07-21T16:17:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:17:41","slug":"mm-1969","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2025\/07\/21\/mm-1969\/","title":{"rendered":"MM &#8211; 1969"},"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=\"Elvis Presley - In the Ghetto (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qfypRsWPuVM?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;In the Ghetto&#8221; is a song written by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?num=10&amp;rlz=1C1VDKB_enUS1070US1070&amp;cs=0&amp;sca_esv=0584e342056e488a&amp;q=Mac+Davis&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjRzeX2qc6OAxWSElkFHUZQM_UQxccNegQIAhAB&amp;mstk=AUtExfB5OzBhKwlQd9SJlWTXaPPspw0eyiNfrsx4VaHWWDSBB-q2qH90pXoUmfGOl8Qr5ro5ne-YUxR0BmrxIlVjGrCAFE3Tsli1dBntT1T6AkoNicd_rXA2Yb9bEG_FbFNBPIDrntKU1z1PbLt_Mri3WxSoGGmgFaYJhJxNtNXVDeoKWJ4&amp;csui=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mac Davis<\/a>\u00a0and popularized by Elvis Presley in 1969.\u00a0<mark>It tells the story of a child born into poverty and violence in the ghetto, and the cyclical nature of hardship that perpetuates from one generation to the next<\/mark>.\u00a0The song became a significant hit for Elvis, marking a return to the charts for him after a period of less commercial success, and is noted for its socially conscious lyrics and passionate delivery.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In the Ghetto&#8221; is a song written by\u00a0Mac Davis\u00a0and popularized by Elvis Presley in 1969.\u00a0It tells the story of a child born into poverty and violence in the ghetto, and the cyclical nature of hardship that perpetuates from one generation to the next.\u00a0The song became a significant hit for Elvis, marking a return to the [&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-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","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=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}