{"id":1390,"date":"2025-11-19T19:16:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2025-11-26T13:44:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T18:44:39","slug":"kansas-carry-on-my-wayward-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/19\/kansas-carry-on-my-wayward-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas &#8211; Carry on Wayward Son (Official Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">The song is largely considered autobiographical for its writer, Kerry Livgren. He has described it as a song of &#8220;self-encouragement&#8221; during a time when he felt he was a &#8220;wayward son&#8221; who was &#8220;alienated from the ultimate reality&#8221; and searching for truth and meaning in his life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">While the lyrics and themes of spiritual searching often lead to religious interpretations, Livgren, who became an evangelical Christian a few years after writing the song, has stated it wasn&#8217;t a specifically religious statement at the time of writing. Instead, it was about his personal spiritual journey and struggle to find his place in the world. The positive ending, &#8220;surely heaven waits for you,&#8221; felt premature to him then, but he felt &#8220;impelled to include it&#8221; and later viewed it as prophetic.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The song is largely considered autobiographical for its writer, Kerry Livgren. He has described it as a song of &#8220;self-encouragement&#8221; during a time when he felt he was a &#8220;wayward son&#8221; who was &#8220;alienated from the ultimate reality&#8221; and searching for truth and meaning in his life. While the lyrics and themes of spiritual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies-music","tag-movies-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunshine-by-us.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}