{"id":10404,"date":"2020-09-09T15:19:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T21:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=10404"},"modified":"2020-09-09T15:19:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T21:19:14","slug":"a-song-that-breaks-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/09\/a-song-that-breaks-your-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"A Song That Breaks Your Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>30-Day Song Challenge, Day 27: A Song That Breaks Your Heart<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bonnie Raitt&#8217;s &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Make You Love Me&#8221; is a <em>beautiful<\/em> ballad, as insightful and emotionally truthful as any I&#8217;ve ever heard&#8230; so truthful that for a very long time, I couldn&#8217;t stand to listen to it.<\/p>\n<p>This was partly an accident of timing. The song was released in October of 1991, and while I was on the mend by then from the romantic trauma I mentioned in the previous entry, &#8220;on the mend&#8221; is a long way from &#8220;100% recovered.&#8221; It didn&#8217;t take much in those days to rip the scab off and this song was just&#8230; too much. It stung me like a physical slap every time I heard it. So naturally it was a big hit that I couldn&#8217;t seem to avoid hearing all through the fall and winter months of that year. The universe has a sick sense of humor sometimes. Even if it hadn&#8217;t come out right then, though, I think I might have struggled with this song anyhow. It really is very sad.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video closely&#8230; the man you see playing the piano at the end is none other than Bruce Hornsby, who&#8217;d just had several hits of his own in the late &#8217;80s with Bruce Hornsby and the Range. He also played piano on Don Henley&#8217;s &#8220;The End of the Innocence&#8221; around this same time. He was evidently the go-to guy for melancholy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nW9Cu6GYqxo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30-Day Song Challenge, Day 27: A Song That Breaks Your Heart Bonnie Raitt&#8217;s &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Make You Love Me&#8221; is a beautiful ballad, as insightful and emotionally truthful as any I&#8217;ve ever heard&#8230; so truthful that for a very long time, I couldn&#8217;t stand to listen to it. This was partly an accident of timing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[34,40],"class_list":["post-10404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-pop-culture","tag-30-day-song-challenge","tag-bonnie-raitt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}