{"id":28477,"date":"2016-12-19T07:05:19","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T12:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=28477"},"modified":"2016-12-19T07:05:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T12:05:19","slug":"bringing-mary-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=28477","title":{"rendered":"Bringing Mary Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shadowboy was recently introduced to Bluegrass by his viola teacher, and encountered this song at a concert.  It&#8217;s an example of the &#8220;vanishing hitchhiker&#8221; urban legend which inspired Jan Harold Brunvand&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vanishing-Hitchhiker-American-Legends-Meanings\/dp\/0393951693\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;qid=1482148972&#038;sr=8-1\" rel=\"nofollow\">seminal collection<\/a> of such legends.<\/p>\n<p>The song itself is a fine bit of Bluegrass, with a chillingly understated final line.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/zRFLZfv7Vw8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shadowboy was recently introduced to Bluegrass by his viola teacher, and encountered this song at a concert. It&#8217;s an example of the &#8220;vanishing hitchhiker&#8221; urban legend which inspired Jan Harold Brunvand&#8217;s seminal collection of such legends. The song itself is a fine bit of Bluegrass, with a chillingly understated final line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paint-it-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28492,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28477\/revisions\/28492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}