{"id":137,"date":"2007-01-15T09:36:26","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T17:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/ain%e2%80%99t-playin%e2%80%99-to-win\/"},"modified":"2007-01-15T10:09:24","modified_gmt":"2007-01-15T18:09:24","slug":"ain%e2%80%99t-playin%e2%80%99-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/2007\/01\/ain%e2%80%99t-playin%e2%80%99-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t playin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written around 1977<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ridin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 on another midnight bus to avoid a motel<br \/>\nThink\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 about the last trip out and how you never can tell;<br \/>\nAnd here I am on another plane with the headphones on,<br \/>\nListenin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to C &#038; W tunes for the third time around.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->CHORUS:<br \/>\nAnd it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s too many buses and too many planes<br \/>\nAnd bein\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 alone from twoo many games;<br \/>\nBut lookin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 back on it all, guess I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d do it again;<br \/>\nLookin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 back on it all, I ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t playin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to win.<\/p>\n<p>Lookin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 around in the airport bar for a familiar face;<br \/>\nThen to the gift shop to buy another decal for my guitar case;<br \/>\nStandin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in another phone booth starin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 at names on the wall;<br \/>\nSearchin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in my pockets for change to make another desperate call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written around 1977 Ridin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 on another midnight bus to avoid a motel Think\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 about the last trip out and how you never can tell; And here I am on another plane with the headphones on, Listenin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to C &#038; W tunes for the third time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-lyrics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathygrossman.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}