{"id":4867,"date":"2026-05-05T10:48:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/?p=4867"},"modified":"2026-05-05T10:48:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:48:54","slug":"happy-80th-birthday-to-my-mom-song-happy-revolution-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/music\/happy-80th-birthday-to-my-mom-song-happy-revolution-day","title":{"rendered":"Happy 80th birthday to my Mom &#8211; song &#8211; Happy Revolution Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\/stuff\/2026\/Mom80-HappyRevolutionDay.mp3>Mom 80 &#8211; Happy Revolution Day<\/A><\/p>\n<p>(With thanks to How Kuff for the concept of birthdays as revolution days)<\/p>\n<p>God knows you weren\u2019t the perfect parent<br \/>\nGod knows I wasn\u2019t the perfect child<br \/>\nYou were a bit too bound by your tribe<br \/>\nI was maybe a bit too wild<\/p>\n<p>But we\u2019ve found our way through the years<br \/>\nAnd ended up as friends<br \/>\nYou were there at the place where my road started<br \/>\nI\u2019ll be there at the place yours ends<\/p>\n<p>Happy revolution day<br \/>\nOne more time around<br \/>\nWhere the falling angel meets the rising ape<br \/>\nStanding on holy ground<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve been there through bad times and good<br \/>\nI\u2019ll been there through dark and light<br \/>\nWe\u2019ve found many things to talk about<br \/>\nIn this shadow play of wrong and right<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve made it through 80 journeys around the sun<br \/>\nWith the laughter and the tears<br \/>\nAnd I feel certain that you find wisdom<br \/>\nIn the exposure to the years<\/p>\n<p>Happy revolution day<br \/>\nOne more time around<br \/>\nI hope the laughter has outweighed the tears<br \/>\nI hope whatever you looked for you found<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mom 80 &#8211; Happy Revolution Day (With thanks to How Kuff for the concept of birthdays as revolution days) God knows you weren\u2019t the perfect parent God knows I wasn\u2019t the perfect child You were a bit too bound by your tribe I was maybe a bit too wild But we\u2019ve found our way through [&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\/4867"}],"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=4867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4868,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4867\/revisions\/4868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}