{"id":4393,"date":"2013-02-01T22:49:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T06:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=4393"},"modified":"2013-02-01T22:49:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T06:49:38","slug":"transient-witticisms-all-music-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2013\/02\/01\/transient-witticisms-all-music-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Transient Witticisms Music Edition: &#8220;Police Navidad&#8221; &#038; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>G-Man:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;&#8216;Steely Dan?'&#8221; Henry&#8217;s incredulous. &#8220;What do they steal?&#8221;<br \/>Me: &#8220;No, &#8216;steel,&#8217; like metal.&#8221;<br \/>H: &#8220;Why do they steal metal??&#8221;\n<\/li>\n<li>Hen, on hearing some hip hop: &#8220;Rap music?! <em>Turn that off!!<\/em>&#8221; He then cries &#8217;til we give in &amp; turn on Johnny Cash.<\/li>\n<li>Henry is mashing up &#8220;Peanuts&#8221; with Peter Gabriel. &#8220;<em>Shock<\/em> the Lucy to-night!&#8221; he sings.<\/li>\n<li>Henry&#8217;s midday requests: Some soup, Dave Brubeck, and a nap. #MyBoy<\/li>\n<li>Henry asks me to explain a Taylor Swift breakup song.<br \/>Me: &#8220;You&#8217;ll understand when you&#8217;re older.&#8221;<br \/>H: &#8220;Maybe I won&#8217;t <em>want<\/em> to understand\u2026&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Finnster:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I can easily make this girl&#8217;s voice with my body,&#8221; says Finn of Ellie Goulding. &#8220;I can&#8217;t make that Axl Rose stuff, though.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>From deep within a pile of Lego forest police loot, Finn&#8217;s begun to sing: &#8220;Police Navidad!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Finn&#8217;s singing his bizarre version of Rudolph: &#8220;&#8230;You might even say it blows!&#8221; (He calls the character &#8220;The Ol&#8217; &#8216;Dolph.)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Dad-O, when i grow up I want to be a policeman who acts like a ninja,&#8221; Finn tells me, &#8220;but not a bad cop like that Sheriff John Brown.&#8221; [from <em>I Shot The Sheriff<\/em>]<\/li>\n<li>I hear Finn singing: &#8220;&#8216;\u2026so call me maybe.&#8217; Oh Dad-O, that song gets stuck in my head! I sing it at preschool, I sing it <em>everywhere!!<\/em>&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>The boys on &#8220;Dirty Deeds&#8221;: &#8220;AC\/DC sound like pirates!&#8221; Of the Ramones&#8217; &#8220;Sheena&#8221;: &#8220;These guys are old warriors! They&#8217;re berserkers!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I imagine our always-underfoot kids singing like the Scorpions&#8217; &#8220;Rock You Like A Hurricane&#8221;: &#8220;HERE I am!! (bom, bomp) <em>FORM<\/em> a human bar-i-cade!!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The boys are becoming a bit &#8220;pants-optional.&#8221; I now sing to them some modified Beatles: &#8220;<em>Hey!<\/em> You&#8217;ve Got To Hide Your Butt Away.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G-Man: &#8220;&#8216;Steely Dan?&#8217;&#8221; Henry&#8217;s incredulous. &#8220;What do they steal?&#8221;Me: &#8220;No, &#8216;steel,&#8217; like metal.&#8221;H: &#8220;Why do they steal metal??&#8221; Hen, on hearing some hip hop: &#8220;Rap music?! Turn that off!!&#8221; He then cries &#8217;til we give in &amp; turn on Johnny Cash. Henry is mashing up &#8220;Peanuts&#8221; with Peter Gabriel. &#8220;Shock the Lucy to-night!&#8221; he sings. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transient-witticisms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393","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=4393"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4398,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions\/4398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}