{"id":978,"date":"2003-03-04T15:37:17","date_gmt":"2003-03-05T07:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/04\/the-tide-is-turning\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:53:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:53:27","slug":"the-tide-is-turning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/04\/the-tide-is-turning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tide is Turning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a song originally from Roger Waters&#8217; album &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000026BN\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Roger Waters - Radio K.A.O.S.\">Radio K.A.O.S.<\/a>&#8220;, though I first heard it as the finale to the 1990 live performance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000001FYU\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"The Wall 1990\">The Wall in Berlin<\/a>. Posted here as a message of hope &#8212; something that&#8217;s all too rare these days.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I used to think the world was flat,<br>\n  rarely threw my hat into the crowd,<br>\n  I felt I had used up my quota of yearning.<br>\n  Used to look in on the children at night<br>\n  in the glow of their Donald Duck light,<br>\n  and frighten myself with the thought of my little ones burning.<br>\n  But oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning&#8230;<br>\n  The tide is turning.<\/p>\n<p>  Satellite buzzing through the endless night,<br>\n  exclusive to moonshots and world title fights.<br>\n  Jesus Christ &#8212; imagine what it must be earning!<br>\n  Who is the strongest? Who is the best?<br>\n  Who holds the aces, the East or the West?<br>\n  This is the crap our children are learning.<br>\n  But oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning&#8230;<br>\n  The tide is turning&#8230;<br>\n  Oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning.<\/p>\n<p>  Now the satellite&#8217;s confused,<br>\n  &#8216;cos on Saturday night<br>\n  the airwaves were full of compassion and light,<br>\n  and his silicon heart warmed<br>\n  to the sight of a billion candles burning<br>\n  I&#8217;m not saying that the battle is won,<br>\n  but on Saturday night all those kids in the sun<br>\n  wrested technology&#8217;s sword from the hand of the war lords.<br>\n  Oh, oh, oh, the tide is turning&#8230;<br>\n  The tide is turning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>  The tide is turning.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a song originally from Roger Waters&#8217; album &#8216;Radio K.A.O.S.&#8217;, though I first heard it as the finale to the 1991 live performance of The Wall in Berlin. Posted here as a message of hope &mdash; something that&#8217;s all too rare these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2035],"tags":[80,2269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}