{"id":3139,"date":"2011-11-07T15:44:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T23:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:50:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T23:50:44","slug":"finnegreens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2011\/11\/07\/finnegreens\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnegreens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/kissThisGuy1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"kissThisGuy\" width=\"200\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3143\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mondegreen\">mondegreen<\/a>&#8221; is a misheard lyric or phrase&#8211;for example, Jimi Hendrix wailing &#8220;&#8216;Scuse me while I kiss this guy&#8221; (instead of &#8220;kiss the sky&#8221;). \u00a0Small children are of course masters of this art, and here are some recent entries:<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Dad-O, what is a &#8216;To-fu Panda&#8217;?,&#8221; Finn asked yesterday. \u00a0The guys are familiar with tofu, but they don&#8217;t know about Kung-Fu or about <em>Kung-Fu Panda<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>In the car Finn began crooning, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got Moose-Like Jacket.&#8221; This was, I think, a great improvement on the Maroon 5 song he had in mind, &#8220;Moves Like Jagger.&#8221; \u00a0I&#8217;ll bet such a jacket would be great for &#8220;taking [one&#8217;s] guts to town,&#8221; as Finn says. \u00a0He&#8217;s heard Johnny Cash singing about &#8220;don&#8217;t take your <em>guns<\/em> to town, son,&#8221; and has protested &#8220;But we need to take our guts! Otherwise the food would fall onto the ground!!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>G-Man isn&#8217;t quite to Finn&#8217;s level, of course, but he&#8217;s getting there: This weekend he overheard me telling my friend Matthew about the window glass, and he asked, &#8220;Is there a drink in the glass?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[For more examples, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2011\/09\/27\/transient-witticisms-finn-vol-2\/\">see previous<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;mondegreen&#8221; is a misheard lyric or phrase&#8211;for example, Jimi Hendrix wailing &#8220;&#8216;Scuse me while I kiss this guy&#8221; (instead of &#8220;kiss the sky&#8221;). \u00a0Small children are of course masters of this art, and here are some recent entries: &#8220;Dad-O, what is a &#8216;To-fu Panda&#8217;?,&#8221; Finn asked yesterday. \u00a0The guys are familiar with tofu, but [&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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-babyslang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139","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=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3145,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions\/3145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}