{"id":288,"date":"2012-07-13T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-13T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=288"},"modified":"2012-07-09T16:57:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T15:57:35","slug":"song-of-the-week-graduation-day-by-john-p-strohm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Graduation Day&#8221; by John P. Strohm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>Today is the graduation ceremony for the Royal Holloway, University of London English Department finalists, so I thought I&#8217;d salute my students with &#8220;Graduation Day&#8221; by John P. Strohm.<br \/>\n<a class=\"my_play my_27\" style=\"display: inline-block; margin: 0; padding: 0; border: 0; width: 27px; height: 27px; overflow: hidden; text-indent: -9999px; background: url('http:\/\/x.myspacecdn.com\/modules\/common\/static\/img\/playbuttonsprite.png') no-repeat 0 -85px;\" title=\"Graduation Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/johnpstrohmmusic\/music\/songs\/graduation-day-26066375\">Graduation Day<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/music\/buttons\/js\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thephiller.com\/reviews\/j\/john_p_strohm\/everyday_life.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">I reviewed the album <em>Everyday Life <\/em>for the Philler a while back<\/a>.\u00a0 Like pretty much the rest of the album, &#8220;Graduation Day&#8221; is wistful, clever, charming, straight-up guitar pop.\u00a0 There&#8217;s something in the way the music and enunciation converge on\u00a0 the word &#8220;tragedy&#8221; that sums up what I like about the song, and indeed, the album: the tragedy of the fading summer and lost love somehow haven&#8217;t changed twenty years later, but the irony has crept into that word all the same.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Graduation%20Day%22%20by%20John%20P.%20Strohm\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. 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