{"id":791,"date":"2025-09-22T16:15:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=791"},"modified":"2025-09-22T16:15:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:15:02","slug":"mm-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2025\/09\/22\/mm-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"MM &#8211; 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/09\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/09\/image.png 600w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/09\/image-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/09\/image-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A Little Good News-Ann Murray (Original 1983 Video)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XTJcchmKhPw?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><strong>Anne Murray\u2019s \u201cA Little Good News,\u201d\u00a0 captures so perfectly how a torrent of negative news stories can damage the psyche.\u00a0 This was in 1983, mind you, when news was limited to the newspaper, radio, and broadcast television.\u00a0 If Murray was craving a little good news in 1983, I truly hope she\u2019s staying away from cable news and social media today!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>This was a big record for Murray that rewarded her releasing a song so atypically topical.\u00a0 It brings out shades in her voice that she rarely utilized, as she gives a surprisingly gritty performance that expresses her anger and frustration at the negativity of the news cycle.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Forty years later, we could use a little good news more than ever, making this one of those rare topical songs that resonates beyond its specific time and place.\u00a0 Here\u2019s hoping that, great as this record is, it won\u2019t always be so timely and relevant.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Anne Murray\u2019s \u201cA Little Good News,\u201d\u00a0 captures so perfectly how a torrent of negative news stories can damage the psyche.\u00a0 This was in 1983, mind you, when news was limited to the newspaper, radio, and broadcast television.\u00a0 If Murray was craving a little good news in 1983, I truly hope she\u2019s staying away from [&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-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","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=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}