{"id":3149,"date":"2016-11-02T05:29:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T12:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/?p=3149"},"modified":"2022-09-15T11:00:46","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T18:00:46","slug":"pride-and-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/music\/pride-and-conviction","title":{"rendered":"Pride And Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/stuff\/2016\/PrideAndConviction.mp3>http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/stuff\/2016\/PrideAndConviction.mp3<\/A><\/p>\n<p>You stand here before me<br \/>\nSaying &#8220;Truth Is Absolute&#8221;, and yours is the one that&#8217;s true<br \/>\nI tell you that this can&#8217;t be<br \/>\nBecause I don&#8217;t see things the way you do<\/p>\n<p><I>Chorus<\/I><br \/>\nYou may think, my brother<br \/>\nThat you&#8217;re the good side and they&#8217;re the evil ones<br \/>\nWhile your opposite number<br \/>\nStands with pride and conviction in all that they&#8217;ve done<\/p>\n<p>Any attempt to sway you<br \/>\nWill meet with nothing but a brick wall<br \/>\nChange is no longer an option<br \/>\nYou will hold this belief, stand or fall<\/p>\n<p>*chorus*<\/p>\n<p>So what is about some knowledge<br \/>\nThat makes us think it&#8217;s irreproachable, beyond disproof<br \/>\nWhat is it about our memories<br \/>\nThat makes us think that we remember absolute truth<\/p>\n<p>*chorus*<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated to everyone in this election who thinks the other side might also be made up of thinking, feeling, capable beings.<\/p>\n<p>Note this later appeared on <A HREF=\/stuff\/BelievingIsSeeing2022\/>Believing Is Seeing<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/stuff\/2016\/PrideAndConviction.mp3 You stand here before me Saying &#8220;Truth Is Absolute&#8221;, and yours is the one that&#8217;s true I tell you that this can&#8217;t be Because I don&#8217;t see things the way you do Chorus You may think, my brother That you&#8217;re the good side and they&#8217;re the evil ones While your opposite number Stands with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4411,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions\/4411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}