{"id":3140,"date":"2016-11-11T18:31:35","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T18:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Thinking-of-Leonard-Cohen-always-makes-me-think-of-his-best-known-song-Hallelujah"},"modified":"2016-11-11T18:31:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T18:31:35","slug":"thinking-of-leonard-cohen-always-makes-me-think-of-his-best-known-song-hallelujah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/11\/11\/thinking-of-leonard-cohen-always-makes-me-think-of-his-best-known-song-hallelujah\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking of Leonard Cohen always makes me think of his best-known song, &#8220;Hallelujah&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/files\/leonard.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thinking of Leonard Cohen always makes me think of his best-known song, &#8220;Hallelujah&#8221;. And thinking of &#8220;Hallelujah&#8221; always makes me think of the one performance of it that <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> raise the hairs on the back of my neck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was on the TV singing competition <em>The X Factor<\/em> a few years ago, and the performer was a young girl, 13 years old, with a beautiful clear voice. I loved her voice, and I love the song &#8211; but I didn&#8217;t love them together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Hallelujah&#8221; is not a song for the beautiful, clear voice of a young girl. It needs to rasp and burr and crack, to be a <em>cold<\/em> and, above all, a <em>broken<\/em> hallelujah. Its beauty is in its imperfection and its difficulty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are moments for perfect, clear, lyrical beauty, and there are moments to rasp and burr and crack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is what Leonard Cohen and that young woman taught me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Writers Write<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Songwriter and singer, Leonard Cohen<\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Thinking of Leonard Cohen always makes me think of his best-known song, &#8220;Hallelujah&#8221;.<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/11\/11\/thinking-of-leonard-cohen-always-makes-me-think-of-his-best-known-song-hallelujah\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}