{"id":2235,"date":"2017-06-30T09:52:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T17:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2022-06-05T13:23:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T21:23:51","slug":"music-friday-israelites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-israelites\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Friday &#8211; Israelites"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-israelites\/\" data-text=\"Music Friday &#038;%238211; Israelites\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<h3><strong>&#8220;Get up in the morning slaving for bread, sir, so that every mout&#8217; can be fed&#8221; edition:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>As usual, I get an idea about something; this starts a train of thought and I just go where it takes me. &nbsp;Here&#8217;s where the train leaves the station: &nbsp;the &#8220;Get up in the morning&#8230;&#8221; line is from a song called &#8220;The Israelites&#8221; by a fellow named <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desmond_Dekker\">Desmond Dekker<\/a>. &nbsp;I remember hearing this song on the radio when I was young, when &#8220;the radio&#8221; was where I heard my music. &nbsp;I heard it again the other day (when I was less young) on the radio &#8211; the satellite radio &#8211; and it got me thinking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Got you thinking about what?&#8221; you ask? &nbsp;Yeah, yeah I&#8217;m getting there. &nbsp;But first let me finish the background on the song since this is a Music Friday post.<\/p>\n<p>In the late 1960s after British music invaded America, reggae music invaded Britain. In 1968 the Jamaican group &nbsp;<em>Desmond Dekker and the Aces<\/em> released &#8220;The Israelites&#8221; which topped the British charts the following year. As near as I can tell it&#8217;s a simple song about living poor in the ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r5JHGi0awgc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>Though what we hear about is a poor man dressed in rags whose wife and kids have left him, we also hear about ourselves. &nbsp;Sure, we don&#8217;t all get up in the morning &nbsp;literally slaving for bread, but we do have our motivations to work whatever time of day (or night) it happens. I wrote earlier about <a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/concupiscence\/\">Concupiscence<\/a>&nbsp; which could be broadly defined as the force to action exerted on us by our passions. &nbsp;It seems obvious that everyone has their motivations above and beyond the necessities to maintain life: wealth, notoriety, <em>attention from a certain someone<\/em> etc. etc. etc. These motivations are there pushing us to act. &nbsp;Somewhere in the human DNA is a gene shaped like a little cardboard sign that reads &#8220;Will work for (something I want but don&#8217;t have)&#8221;. &nbsp;Is this humankind&#8217;s greatest blessing, or a fatal defect? &nbsp;As usual the answer seems to be: both.<\/p>\n<p>So many mout&#8217;s to be fed. &nbsp;I&#8217;d better set my alarm an hour early.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet &#8220;Get up in the morning slaving for bread, sir, so that every mout&#8217; can be fed&#8221; edition: As usual, I get an idea about something; this starts a train of thought and I just go where it takes me. &nbsp;Here&#8217;s where the train leaves&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2300,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions\/2300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}