{"id":20606,"date":"2011-02-06T11:44:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T16:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=20606"},"modified":"2011-02-06T11:44:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T16:44:40","slug":"bob-marley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/02\/06\/bob-marley\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Marley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tzkG6Xu6lUE&amp;feature=fvwrel<\/p>\n<p><em>A gorgeous live version of &#8220;No Woman, No Cry&#8221; fom the <\/em>Legend <em>album.\u00a0 Still gives me chills to hear the audience singing from the opening bar before Bob even gets started.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Marley\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Marley<\/a>&#8216;s birthday (1945-1981).\u00a0 His deeply peaceful instincts, inspired by a full commitment to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rastafarianism\" target=\"_blank\">Rastafari<\/a>, seemed to match his musical genius:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t have prejudice against meself. My father was a white and my mother was black. Them call me half-caste or whatever. Me don&#8217;t dip on nobody&#8217;s side. Me don&#8217;t dip on the black man&#8217;s side nor the white man&#8217;s side. Me dip on God&#8217;s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Frye on peace and choosing life in conversation with David Cayley:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We&#8217;ve gone though history thinking of peace as meaning that the war has stopped, and consequently, a lot of people, when you use a word like &#8220;peace,&#8221; say, &#8220;Well, the world of peace sounds awfully dull.\u00a0 There&#8217;d be nothing to do if there&#8217;s nothing to fight about.&#8221; What I go for is &#8220;Blake&#8217;s I will not cease from mental fight \/ Till we have built Jerusalem.&#8221;\u00a0 God says in Deuteronomy, &#8220;I have set before you life and death . . . therefore choose life.&#8221; [30:19].\u00a0 Well, nobody, with all respect to God, could possibly say that that was a logical &#8220;therefore.&#8221; A lot of people choose life choose it only because they have got into the habit of living.\u00a0 They find it easier to do that than to break clear of it.\u00a0 Others will choose life, but when life becomes an act of choice, then there&#8217;s the question of what you&#8217;re goint to do with it, what direction you&#8217;re to go in.\u00a0 (CW 24, 1001-2)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tzkG6Xu6lUE&amp;feature=fvwrel A gorgeous live version of &#8220;No Woman, No Cry&#8221; fom the Legend album.\u00a0 Still gives me chills to hear the audience singing from the opening bar before Bob even gets started. Today is Bob Marley&#8216;s birthday (1945-1981).\u00a0 His deeply peaceful instincts, inspired by a full commitment to Rastafari, seemed to match his musical genius: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-popular-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bob Marley - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/02\/06\/bob-marley\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bob Marley - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tzkG6Xu6lUE&amp;feature=fvwrel A gorgeous live version of &#8220;No Woman, No Cry&#8221; fom the Legend album.\u00a0 Still gives me chills to hear the audience singing from the opening bar before Bob even gets started. 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