{"id":2147,"date":"2025-11-08T13:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T21:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=2147"},"modified":"2025-11-08T13:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T21:32:07","slug":"saturday-memory-for-november-8-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/saturday-memory-for-november-8-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Memory for November 8, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Saturday Memory<\/span><br \/>\nNovember 8, 2025<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I woke up thinking about a song. It was not a dream but an intense recall. The song was \u201cHarper Valley PTA.\u201d I remembered that Jeannie Riley sang it and that she was the first woman to top the pop and country charts with the same song. I also recalled that it had become something of a feminist anthem and was written by one of my favorite songwriters, Tom T. Hall. I first heard the song 57 years ago, but I have not heard it for several decades. I was 30 when I heard it and was about to begin training as a Jungian analyst. The theme of the song is a strong single woman standing up to a small town\u2019s patriarchal hypocrisy. But why am I being reminded of this now as I near my 87th birthday? Sometimes, listening to a song that comes strongly out of the blue like this brings up a new feeling or a realization of some kind that applies to the \u201cnow.\u201d When I listened to Jeannie sing \u201cHarper Valley PTA,\u201d I felt a strong urge to turn my poems into songs. How can I do this now becomes a task. I\u2019ll post again when something comes of this. Take a listen:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/(24) Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley P.T.A. with Lyrics - YouTube\">(24) Jeannie C. Riley &#8211; Harper Valley P.T.A. with Lyrics &#8211; YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday Memory November 8, 2025 I woke up thinking about a song. It was not a dream but an intense recall. The song was \u201cHarper Valley PTA.\u201d I remembered that Jeannie Riley sang it and that she was the first woman to top the pop and country charts with the same song. I also recalled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2148,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2147\/revisions\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}