{"id":886,"date":"2025-12-11T06:23:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/?p=886"},"modified":"2025-12-11T06:27:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T13:27:36","slug":"day-11-river-by-meagan-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/day-11-river-by-meagan-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 11 &#8211; River by Meagan Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Singing songs of joy and peace&#8221;, I have never really thought of River being on this list, until this year, when a co-worker said it was a favourite, so here goes, Meagan Davies has had music on the list before, but returns with an acoustic version of River by Joni Mitchell.  Enjoy River!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"River - Joni Mitchell (Acoustic Cover)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nk_kYn7x0yI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" 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>It&#8217;s coming on Christmas<br>They&#8217;re cutting down trees<br>They&#8217;re putting up reindeer<br>And singing songs of joy and peace<br>Oh, I wish I had a river<br>I could skate away on<br>But it don&#8217;t snow here<br>It stays pretty green<br>I&#8217;m going to make a lot of money<br>Then I&#8217;m going to quit this crazy scene<br>I wish I had a river<br>I could skate away on<br>I wish I had a river so long<br>I would teach my feet to fly<br>Oh, I wish I had a river<br>I could skate away on<br>I made my baby cry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He tried hard to help me<br>You know, he put me at ease<br>And he loved me so naughty<br>Made me weak in the knees<br>Oh, I wish I had a river<br>I could skate away on<br>I&#8217;m so hard to handle<br>I&#8217;m selfish and I&#8217;m sad<br>Now I&#8217;ve gone and lost the best baby<br>That I ever had<br>Oh, I wish I had a river<br>I could skate away on<br>I wish I had a river so long<br>I would teach my feet to fly<br>Oh, I wish I had a river<br>I could skate away on<br>I made my baby say goodbye<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s coming on Christmas<br>They&#8217;re cutting down trees<br>They&#8217;re putting up reindeer<br>Singing songs of joy and peace<br>I wish I had a river<br>I could skate away on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Singing songs of joy and peace&#8221;, I have never really thought of River being on this list, until this year, when a co-worker said it was a favourite, so here goes, Meagan Davies has had music on the list before, but returns with an acoustic version of River by Joni Mitchell. Enjoy River! It&#8217;s coming&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[29,25],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7","category-25days","tag-29","tag-25days"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":887,"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beazworks.com\/25days\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}