{"id":2876,"date":"2021-02-09T06:41:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T13:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2021-02-09T06:42:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T13:42:20","slug":"what-a-wonderful-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2876","title":{"rendered":"What a Wonderful World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2349\" src=\"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x150121-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Thank God for Louis Armstrong. He saved my Monday.<\/p>\n<p>I had woken to the usual weekend news updates\u2014more political unrest, more bad pandemic numbers.<\/p>\n<p>And, then, \u201cWhat a Wonderful World\u201d popped up on my Pandora.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, I\u2019m seeing \u201ctrees so green,\u201d \u201cred roses too,\u201d \u201cskies so blue,\u201d and \u201cfriends shaking hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What timing!<\/p>\n<p>Evidently, I was not the first to experience his magic. In 1968 when the writers coaxed a nearly 70-year-old Armstrong to record their song, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King had been assassinated, there had been race riots in Chicago and D.C., and the communist forces had launched their TET Offensive in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>So Louis Armstrong to the rescue, and a piece was born that one critic called \u201cone of the most uplifting, life-affirming songs of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amen to that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=A3yCcXgbKrE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check it out online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank God for Louis Armstrong. He saved my Monday. I had woken to the usual weekend news updates\u2014more political unrest, more bad pandemic numbers. And, then, \u201cWhat a Wonderful World\u201d popped up on my Pandora. Suddenly, I\u2019m seeing \u201ctrees so green,\u201d \u201cred roses too,\u201d \u201cskies so blue,\u201d and \u201cfriends shaking hands.\u201d What timing! Evidently, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2878,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions\/2878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}