{"id":13,"date":"2008-03-11T11:42:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T19:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-03-11T11:42:22","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T19:42:22","slug":"songs-in-the-key-of-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2008\/03\/11\/songs-in-the-key-of-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs in the Key of F"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As probably everyone knows by now, babies can hear their parents&#8217; voices <i>in utero<\/i>, and it&#8217;s possible that playing music for bambinos stimulates their development.&#160; Not wanting The Artist Soon To Be Known as Finn to hear <em>only<\/em> his mom&#8217;s voice, and having learned that babies respond more to high-pitched sounds, I decided to &#8220;serenade&#8221; Margot&#8217;s belly with the falsetto tones of Neil Young&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JXgAbrhAI7I\">Vampire Blues<\/a>.&#160; Instead of singing &#8220;Oh I&#8217;m a vampire, baby, suckin&#8217; blood from the earth,&#8221; I changed it to &#8220;Oh I&#8217;m a Vampire Baby, suckin&#8217; juice from my mom&#8230;&#8221;&#160; This seemed to go over pretty well, earning a few kicks in my general direction. \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>Other Finn-themed faves:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Devendra Banhart &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?i=14066882&#038;id=14066892&#038;s=143441\">Michigan State<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; &#8212; which I relentlessly turn into &#8220;Finnegan State&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>Coldplay &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?i=250524984&#038;id=250524932&#038;s=143441\">Yellow<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; &#8212; but not anymore (adios, jaundice) <\/li>\n<li>Traditional &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?i=17408348&#038;id=17408378&#038;s=143441\">Finnegan&#8217;s Wake<\/a><\/strong>&#8221;  &#8212; totally incomprehensible, but high-spirited good times.&#160; (We won&#8217;t actually keep a bucket of whiskey by dear Finnegan&#8217;s head.)<\/li>\n<li>The Who &#8220;<strong>Finnball Wizard<\/strong>&#8221;  &#8212; got such a supple lip. \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As probably everyone knows by now, babies can hear their parents&#8217; voices in utero, and it&#8217;s possible that playing music for bambinos stimulates their development.&#160; Not wanting The Artist Soon To Be Known as Finn to hear only his mom&#8217;s voice, and having learned that babies respond more to high-pitched sounds, I decided to &#8220;serenade&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}