{"id":320,"date":"2009-01-07T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=320"},"modified":"2025-07-31T16:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:48:20","slug":"oz-never-did-give-nuthin-to-the-tin-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/oz-never-did-give-nuthin-to-the-tin-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Oz never did give nuthin\u2019 to the tin man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16026 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/20090107_tinman.jpg\" alt=\"Poster for the movie TIN MAN.\" width=\"287\" height=\"370\">that he didn\u2019t already have.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zGl4PP9xaaQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">America, \u201cTin Man\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is one of my favorite sentences and has been since I was a child. When I was a child, I didn\u2019t quite understand it (and some days I think I still don\u2019t), but it resonated with me deeply until I was old enough to at least grasp the intellectual concept. (Some of the best things I\u2019ve ever read\/heard come from a subconscious wisdom that it took chemical enhancement to drag kicking and screaming into the light, but what the hell, right?)<\/p>\n<p>I still draw on it for strength and encouragement fairly often, at least once a week. I don\u2019t have it posted anywhere; I don\u2019t need to.<\/p>\n<p>Go ahead. Be brave. Pony up with your guiding maxims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>that he didn\u2019t already have. \u2014America, \u201cTin Man\u201d This is one of my favorite sentences and has been since I was a child. When I was a child, I didn\u2019t quite understand it (and some days I think I still don\u2019t), but it resonated with me deeply until I was old enough to at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[517,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17000,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/17000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}