{"id":5458,"date":"2014-03-30T05:18:30","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T13:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=5458"},"modified":"2014-03-30T05:36:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T13:36:20","slug":"transient-witticisms-music-edition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2014\/03\/30\/transient-witticisms-music-edition-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Transient Witticisms: Music edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I&#8217;ve been totally neglecting this category, so let me set about fixing that. Today&#8217;s edition: Music.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cDad-O,\u201d asks radio-listening Henry, \u201care \u2018musicians\u2019 real? And do they <em>really<\/em> pull rabbits out of hats?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Henry: &#8220;Dad-O, what is &#8216;heavy metal?'&#8221;<br \/>Me: &#8220;Oh, stuff like &#8216;Breaking The Law&#8217; &amp; &#8216;TNT.'&#8221;<br \/>H.: &#8220;Oh! Heavy metal is good for me!!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Listening to Lorde\u2019s \u201cTeams,\u201d 4yo Henry says, \u201cShe actually takes her hands off &amp; throws them up in the air!\u201d (I\u2019d be kinda over that, too.)<\/li>\n<li>From the back seat this morning: &#8220;Dad-O, could a baby duck fit into a can of beer?&#8221; I guess the Pixies bring the weird out of Henry. #age4<\/li>\n<li>80&#8217;s rocker nomenclature baffles young Henry.<br \/>&#8220;I guess he must love watermelons.&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;Who?&#8221;<br \/>&#8220;John Cougar Watermeloncamp.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Henry, singing: \u201cWe built this city\u2026\u201d<br \/>Me, chuckling: \u201cWhat would Mom-O say if she heard you?\u201d<br \/>Henry: \u201cG__DAMN it!!\u201d<br \/>(M.: \u201cHe\u2019s not wrong.\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe Rolling Stones?\u201d Henry\u2019s intrigued. \u201cDo they sing quarry music?\u201d Rock on, little man.<\/li>\n<li>Upon hearing Neil young&#8217;s Harvest Moon, Henry says &#8220;I think this is an old prospector making train track music.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>I hear crooner Finn mashing up Jos\u00e9 Feliciano &#038; Joy Division&#8217;s &#8220;Love Will Tear Us Apart&#8221;: \u201cFeliz Navidad, <em>aaa-gain<\/em>\u2026\u201d<\/li>\n<li>I make the mistake of turning on KFOX in the car. From the back seat the boys immediately yell, \u201cWhat Does KFOX Say?? Nya nya nyah nyah\u2026!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>My reciting of Public Enemy lyrics leaves Finn shaking his head. &#8220;I&#8217;m a white man, and I&#8217;m not familiar with <em>anything<\/em> Dad-O says!!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I&#8217;ve been totally neglecting this category, so let me set about fixing that. Today&#8217;s edition: Music. \u201cDad-O,\u201d asks radio-listening Henry, \u201care \u2018musicians\u2019 real? And do they really pull rabbits out of hats?\u201d Henry: &#8220;Dad-O, what is &#8216;heavy metal?&#8217;&#8221;Me: &#8220;Oh, stuff like &#8216;Breaking The Law&#8217; &amp; &#8216;TNT.&#8217;&#8221;H.: &#8220;Oh! Heavy metal is good for me!!\u201d Listening [&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-5458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transient-witticisms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458","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=5458"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5463,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions\/5463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}