{"id":4288,"date":"2018-02-08T12:39:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T12:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=4288"},"modified":"2018-02-08T00:43:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T00:43:48","slug":"crazed-beats-echo-into-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/crazed-beats-echo-into-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazed Beats Echo Into The Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1920s ORIGINAL CHARLESTON SONGS, 1920s JAZZ COMPILATION (from Germany to the USA (HOT))\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uf8TXoM675U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This verse I wrote some years back when living in Tullamore, hearing loud music and meeting an old disapproving couple that I looked on wryly while passing!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Crazed beats echo into the night<br \/>\nA couple passing shake their heads: say its not right<br \/>\nCrazy music, adored by crazy kids<br \/>\nLets, keep moving&#8230; one to the other bids.<\/p>\n<p>Once on TV, a dance I saw<br \/>\nA dance of emotion, wild and raw,<br \/>\nStrangely graceful, I must presume<br \/>\nI thought so because of age and contume.<\/p>\n<p>Clothes worn by the dancers, shown in black and white<br \/>\nDancing the Charleston somewhere one night<br \/>\nWhat now seems quaint because it is old<br \/>\nWas in its time both daring and bold.<\/p>\n<p>Crazier music will come to be<br \/>\nThe one tut tutting will be me<br \/>\nRemebering respectable nights spent<br \/>\nDancing to Eminem and 50 cent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This verse I wrote some years back when living in Tullamore, hearing loud music and meeting an old disapproving couple that I looked on wryly while passing! Crazed beats echo into the night A couple passing shake their heads: say its not right Crazy music, adored by crazy kids Lets, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1320,3755,4090,4093,3408,4092,4091],"class_list":["post-4288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-culture","tag-dance","tag-life-music","tag-looking-back","tag-people","tag-reaction","tag-street","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-17a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1925,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/charleston-yesterday-and-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":4288,"position":0},"title":"Charleston Yesterday and Today","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"19th June 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"God be with the days when it was but a dance When you thought of Charleston, in newsreels, Of crazy steps of a crazy dance craze of the twenties Today, numb a world feels As if we have not moved on since those days Of segregation, discrimination and hate For\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Civil Rights&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Civil Rights","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/civil-rights\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Charleston shooting victims","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/FB_IMG_1434696886697.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/FB_IMG_1434696886697.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/FB_IMG_1434696886697.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3606,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/they-are-dancing-tonight\/","url_meta":{"origin":4288,"position":1},"title":"They Are Dancing Tonight","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"12th March 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/l5F4waoLT84?t=112 They are dancing tonight, the fine women Loud is the music, beyond thinking They are out upon the mountain Vodka, by the bottle, drinking! 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The young girls, beautiful, At dance, they are not. The boys, big, are not playing Football and hurling during the day, And they are not singing the songs. There\u2019s no-one that hears it. 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