{"id":1789,"date":"2007-12-18T05:15:59","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T10:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2007-12-18T07:44:33","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T12:44:33","slug":"pianomomsicle-friday-5again-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1789","title":{"rendered":"By Any Memes Necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/pianomomsicle.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/friday-5again-late.html\">pianomomsicle<\/a>; a meme:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>What\u2019s your favorite song about growing up?<\/strong> &#8220;The River&#8221; by Springsteen.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What\u2019s your favorite song about cars or driving?<\/strong> &#8220;Racing In The Streets&#8221; by &#8211; yep &#8211; Springsteen.  Although it&#8217;s more about&#8230;well, growing up.  Or more like &#8220;being ambushed by the realization that you&#8217;re an adult now&#8221;.  But I&#8217;m going to list it here, because the first two verses are about drag-racing.  The song always kills me.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What\u2019s your favorite song whose title is a person\u2019s name?<\/strong> Um, &#8220;Rosalita&#8221; by&#8230;yeah, Springsteen.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What\u2019s your favorite get-up-and-dance song<\/strong>? All right, a non-Springsteen entry.  That&#8217;d be &#8220;Shotgun&#8221; by Junior Walker and the All-Stars (although Springsteen has covered it).  Or &#8220;It&#8217;s A Long Way To The Top&#8221; by AC\/DC.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What\u2019s your favorite novelty song?<\/strong>  &#8220;Raspberry Beret&#8221; by the Hindu Love Gods.  Honorable mention &#8211; a thrash-punk version of Prince&#8217;s &#8220;Kiss&#8221; that is lost to history.   That, and\/or Killdozer&#8217;s version of &#8220;I Am, I Said&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via pianomomsicle; a meme: What\u2019s your favorite song about growing up? &#8220;The River&#8221; by Springsteen. What\u2019s your favorite song about cars or driving? &#8220;Racing In The Streets&#8221; by &#8211; yep &#8211; Springsteen. Although it&#8217;s more about&#8230;well, growing up. Or more like &#8220;being ambushed by the realization that you&#8217;re an adult now&#8221;. But I&#8217;m going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}