{"id":11182,"date":"2020-12-28T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11182"},"modified":"2021-01-22T14:41:24","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T21:41:24","slug":"willie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/28\/willie\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>from Slate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An Interview With Willie Nelson at 87: \u201cI Didn\u2019t Ever Think I\u2019d Get This Old\u201d<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/author\/jonathan-l-fischer\">JONATHAN L. FISCHER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Willie Nelson Interview in 1990\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hXx-0zg9sHs?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>As part of Slate\u2019s project on the<\/em><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/tag\/80-over-80\"><em>80 most influential Americans over 80<\/em><\/a><em>, we spoke to some members of the list to reflect on aging, work, and life in their ninth decade and beyond. Willie Nelson, 87, is an iconic singer-songwriter and one of the originators of outlaw country music. His latest album,&nbsp;<\/em>First Rose of Spring<em>, is his 70<\/em><sup><em>th<\/em><\/sup><em>; his 71<\/em><sup><em>st<\/em><\/sup><em>, the Frank Sinatra tribute&nbsp;<\/em>That\u2019s Life<em>, will be released in February. Slate spoke with Nelson by phone last week. The conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jonathan L. Fischer: A lot of your songs that I love have the feeling of being sung by an old soul. Your outlaw country years, even before then\u2014it sounded like it\u2019d been done by someone who\u2019d lived a lot. When you were younger, what did you think about being old? And now that you\u2019re older, what do you understand about being young?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2020\/12\/willie-nelson-interview-80-over-80.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Slate<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Slate An Interview With Willie Nelson at 87: \u201cI Didn\u2019t Ever Think I\u2019d Get This Old\u201d By\u00a0JONATHAN L. FISCHER As part of Slate\u2019s project on the&nbsp;80 most influential Americans over 80, we spoke to some members of the list to reflect on aging, work, and life in their ninth decade and beyond. Willie Nelson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}