{"id":4062,"date":"2002-09-06T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-06T12:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/09\/06\/nothing-man-by-bruce-springsteen\/"},"modified":"2002-09-06T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-06T12:25:00","slug":"nothing-man-by-bruce-springsteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/09\/06\/nothing-man-by-bruce-springsteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing Man by Bruce Springsteen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t remember how I felt<br \/>\nI never thought I&#8217;d live<br \/>\nTo read about myself<br \/>\nIn my hometown paper<br \/>\nHow my brave young life<br \/>\nWas forever changed<br \/>\nI a misty cloud of pink vapor<\/p>\n<p>Darlin&#8217; give me your kiss<br \/>\nOnly understand<br \/>\nI am, the nothing man<\/p>\n<p>Around here, everybody acts the same<br \/>\nAround here, everybody acts like nothing&#8217;s changed<br \/>\nFriday night, the club meets at Al&#8217;s Barbecue<br \/>\nThe sky&#8217;s still, the same unbelievable blue<\/p>\n<p>Darlin&#8217; give me your kiss<br \/>\nCome and take my hand<br \/>\nI am, the nothing man<\/p>\n<p>You can call me Joe<br \/>\nBuy me a drink and shake my hand<br \/>\nYou want courage<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll show you courage you can understand<br \/>\nThe pearl and silver<br \/>\nRestin&#8217; on my night table<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s just me Lord, pray I&#8217;m able<\/p>\n<p>Darlin, with this kiss<br \/>\nSay you understand<br \/>\nI am, the nothing man<br \/>\nI am, the nothing man<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t remember how I felt I never thought I&#8217;d live To read about myself In my hometown paper How my brave young life Was forever changed I a misty cloud of pink vapor Darlin&#8217; give me your kiss Only understand I am, the nothing man Around here, everybody acts the same Around here, everybody &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/09\/06\/nothing-man-by-bruce-springsteen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nothing Man by Bruce Springsteen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}