{"id":4533,"date":"2006-01-25T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T07:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2006-01-25T07:26:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T07:26:00","slug":"nina-simons-mississippi-goddam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4533","title":{"rendered":"Nina Simon\u2019s \u201cMississippi Goddam\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"http:\/\/music.barnesandnoble.com\/search\/product.asp?userid=um2YofGAme&#038;EAN=828767441320&#038;ITM=1\" class=\"content-image-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/forever_young.gif\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Nina Simone has been one of my favored jazz singers for a long time. I counted myself until January 16th as a connoisseur of her entire work. But on Martin Luther King day  I heard her civil rights song <em>Mississippi Goddam<\/em> on the radio that showed me that having all her \u201eBest of CDs\u201c is no guarantee that one gets to know the best songs of an artist. The live recording of  <em>Mississippi Goddam<\/em> strikes me as one of the best political songs ever. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nina Simone has been one of my favored jazz singers for a long time. I counted myself until January 16th as a connoisseur of her <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4533\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/forever_young.gif\" alt=\"image\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jazz","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}