{"id":2349,"date":"2015-02-06T05:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T05:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2349"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:14:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:14:19","slug":"bob-marley-would-have-been-70-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2349","title":{"rendered":"Bob Marley would have been 70 today."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I was living in Jamaica, 1977-79, he was the king. Yah Mon, Jah, Rastafari.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a book review &amp; other stuff I posted and also put up on amazon in 2006&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2006\/07\/latest_read_bef.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">Latest Read: Before the Legend &#8211; The Rise of Bob Marley<\/a> . Farandaville &#8211; huge Marley fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His wikipedia entry <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bob_Marley\" target=\"_self\">Bob Marley<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Being fair and balanced, here is a leftist whacko interpretation of the meaning of Bob Marley&nbsp; (From The Guardian (UK)) &amp; a cure for insomnia &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2015\/feb\/05\/bob-marley-70-birthday\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\">Bob Marley at 70: legend and legacy <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"134\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c747a090970b-150wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11760\" title=\"Bob Marley\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;ll just take the music &#8211; Could you be Loved &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sL_BcaI0i0w\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here&#8217;s a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Legend_%28Bob_Marley_%26_The_Wailers_album%29\" target=\"_self\">Legend<\/a> album on youtube &#8211;&nbsp;http:\/\/youtu.be\/5op_iZK-vKo &#8211; Marley and the Wailer&#8217;s greatest hits. One of the all-time phenomenal selling albums on the planet earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d0d0fc1d970c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d0d0fc1d970c-150wi\" alt=\"Jamaica flag\" title=\"Jamaica flag\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was living in Jamaica, 1977-79, he was the king. Yah Mon, Jah, Rastafari. Here&#8217;s a book review &amp; other stuff I posted and also put up on amazon in 2006&nbsp;Latest Read: Before the Legend &#8211; The Rise of Bob Marley . Farandaville &#8211; huge Marley fans. His wikipedia entry Bob Marley Being fair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11761,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions\/11761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}