{"id":93,"date":"2007-07-08T04:09:09","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T23:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2024-11-29T18:52:48","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T13:52:48","slug":"lay-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/lay-it-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Lay It Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left; margin:10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/?p=93\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chengrob.com\/images\/gateway.gif\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I wrote this song while thinking of many of my friends that still work at my ex company Gateway Computer.  To be honest, they are struggling right now.  My friends in South Dakota are frustrated for change but at the same time, it is hard to change the negative inertia.  So rather than be frustrated, they should Lay It Down.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I had written a full song and this one just popped out in March of this year.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-93-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/songs\/layitdown.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/songs\/layitdown.mp3\">https:\/\/chengrob.com\/songs\/layitdown.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<blockquote>\n<pre>Lay it down\n\nIntro \nA C G A\n\nVerse\nEm\nI didn't ask to be in the place\nAm\nAnd nothing is the same\nEm\nSo many people I don't like\nC                    Am                     \nBut I got no time to complain\n\nSo much same old same old\nNo one's trying anything new\nWe're not judged on what we say\njust on what we do\n\nD\nTime's run out for talking\nC\nThis ship's got to turn around\nC\nIt's hard when everyone's watching, \nA            C   G  A\nBut I got to Lay it down.\n\n\nRefrain\nA        C   G  A\nI got to lay it down\nC                A\nJudgment time is near\nA        C   G  A\nI got to lay it down\nD                E\nAnd put aside my fears\n\nD\nI'm not going to leave this place\nC\nwithout ever making a sound\nC\nNow more than ever\nA            C   G  A\nIt's time to lay it down.<\/pre>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this song while thinking of many of my friends that still work at my ex company Gateway Computer. To be honest, they are struggling right now. My friends in South Dakota are frustrated for change but at the same time, it is hard to change the negative inertia. So rather than be frustrated, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5304,"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/5304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chengrob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}