{"id":37936,"date":"2019-07-29T14:55:25","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T14:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=37936"},"modified":"2019-07-29T14:55:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T14:55:30","slug":"music-willie-nelson-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/music-willie-nelson-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Music: Willie Nelson: &#8220;Crazy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about Willie Nelson and American music: the tutor shares a story he discovered.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A few days ago I learned that Willie Nelson wrote &#8220;Crazy.&#8221; Back then, in 1960, Patsy Cline was a star, yet &#8220;Crazy&#8221; is the only song I know her by. I was born in &#8217;70, and I&#8217;ve always known Willie Nelson&#8217;s name.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBelieve it or not, Willie Nelson tried to sell &#8220;Crazy&#8221; for $10 in 1960.\n<blockquote>\nI&#8217;m broke and I need money right now, and I can always write some more songs.<br\/>\n&#8211;Willie Nelson, 1960\n<\/blockquote>\nThe man he tried to sell it to &#8211; Larry Butler &#8211; said it was too good to sell for that price. Instead he got Willie Nelson a job.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe story brings tears to my eyes &#8211; read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpress.com\/music\/conroe-man-could-have-bought-willie-nelsons-crazy-for-10-6775998\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/2007\/04\/behind-the-song-crazy-by-willie-nelson\/\">americansongwriter.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about Willie Nelson and American music: the tutor shares a story he discovered. A few days ago I learned that Willie Nelson wrote &#8220;Crazy.&#8221; Back then, in 1960, Patsy Cline was a star, yet &#8220;Crazy&#8221; is the only song &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/music-willie-nelson-crazy\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music: Willie Nelson: &#8220;Crazy&#8221;<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37936"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37941,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37936\/revisions\/37941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}