{"id":18801,"date":"2017-03-08T17:35:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T17:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=18801"},"modified":"2017-03-09T01:59:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T01:59:54","slug":"1977-hanafi-siege-march-9-1977-otis-marlena-joni-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2017\/03\/08\/1977-hanafi-siege-march-9-1977-otis-marlena-joni-mitchell\/","title":{"rendered":"Forty Years Ago Today: 1977 Hanafi Siege &#8211; March 9, 1977 &#8211; Otis &#038; Marlena &#8211; Joni Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u3OVzXcJUVY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><br \/>\n<em><strong>Otis &amp; Marlena<\/strong> &#8211; Joni Mitchell &#8211; Don Juan&#8217;s Reckless Daughter, Asylum 1977<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Marlena under Foster Grants<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s undercover from the dawns advance<br \/>\nThat girl is travel drained<br \/>\nAnd the neon mercury vapor stained<br \/>\nMiami sky<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s red as meat<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a cheap pink rose<br \/>\nOtis in the driver&#8217;s seat<br \/>\nWatches the street lights fade away<br \/>\nOn louvered blocks in green sea air<br \/>\nIn fluorescent fossil yards<br \/>\nSlippers are shuffling into folding chairs<br \/>\nFreckled hands are shuffling cards<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve come for sun and fun<br \/>\nWhile Muslims stick up Washington *<\/p>\n<p>Otis empties out the trunk<br \/>\nOn the steps of that celebrated dump<br \/>\nSleazing by the sea<br \/>\nBow down to her royal travesty<br \/>\nIn her ballrooms heads of state<br \/>\nIn her bedrooms rented girls<br \/>\nAlways the grand parades of cellulite<br \/>\nJiggling to her golden pools<br \/>\nThrough flock and cupid colonnades<br \/>\nThey jiggle into surgery<br \/>\nHopefully beneath the blade<br \/>\nThey dream of golden beauty<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve come for sun and fun<br \/>\nWhile Muslims stick up Washington<\/p>\n<p>Marlena white as stretcher sheet<br \/>\nWatches it all from her tenth floor balcony<br \/>\nLike it&#8217;s her opera box<br \/>\nAll those Pagliacci summer frocks<br \/>\nOtis is fiddling with the TV dial<br \/>\nAll he gets are cartoons and reruns<br \/>\nShe taps her glass with an emery file<br \/>\nWatching three rings in the sun<br \/>\nThe golden dive the fatted flake<br \/>\nAnd sizzle in the mink oil<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s all a dream<br \/>\nShe has awake<br \/>\nChecked into Miami Royal<br \/>\nWhere they&#8217;ve come for sun and fun<br \/>\nWhile Muslims hold up Washington<br \/>\nDream on<br \/>\nDream on<br \/>\nDream on<br \/>\nDream on<br \/>\nDream on<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 1977; Crazy Crow Music<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/2017\/joni-mitchell-blackman001.jpg?resize=580%2C570\" width=\"580\" height=\"570\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joni Mitchell appears on the cover of Don Juan&#8217;s Reckless Daughter, 1977 &#8211; disguised as a black man \u00a9 Joni Mitchell<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/2017\/joni-mitchell-blackman02.jpg?resize=580%2C570\" width=\"580\" height=\"570\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joni Mitchell appears on the cover of Don Juan&#8217;s Reckless Daughter, 1977 disguised as a black man \u00a9 Joni Mitchell<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>*<\/h1>\n<blockquote><p><em>On March 9, 1977, seven members of Khaalis&#8217; group burst into the headquarters of B&#8217;nai B&#8217;rith, a few miles south of Khaalis&#8217; headquarters, and took over 100 hostages. Less than an hour later, three men entered the Islamic Center of Washington, and took eleven hostages. At 2:20 pm, two Hanafis entered the District Building, three blocks from the White House. They went to the fifth floor looking for important people to take hostage. When an elevator opened the hostage-takers thought they were under assault and fired, killing Maurice Williams, a reporter for WHUR-FM radio, and injuring security guard Mack Cantrell. Then-councilman Marion Barry was struck by a ricochet in the chest, and two others were wounded. &#8220;Throughout the siege Khaalis denounced the Jewish judge who had presided at the trial of his family&#8217;s killers. &#8216;The Jews control the courts and the press,'&#8221; he repeatedly charged. &#8211; Wikipedia<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Otis &amp; Marlena &#8211; Joni Mitchell &#8211; Don Juan&#8217;s Reckless Daughter, Asylum 1977 Marlena under Foster Grants She&#8217;s undercover from the dawns advance That girl is travel drained And the neon mercury vapor stained Miami sky It&#8217;s red as meat It&#8217;s a cheap pink rose Otis in the driver&#8217;s seat Watches the street lights fade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[643,830],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghost-signs-ghost-ads-other-phantoms","category-joni-mitchell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-4Tf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18801"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18813,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18801\/revisions\/18813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}