{"id":2144,"date":"2007-06-08T14:15:11","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T19:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2007-06-08T17:37:40","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T22:37:40","slug":"the-curse-of-pachebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/the-curse-of-pachebel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Curse of Pachebel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I heard <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Graduation_%28Friends_Forever%29\">Vitamin C&#8217;s Graduation (Friends Forever)<\/a>, I thought it had a catchy melody even tho it became increasingly inane. Today it&#8217;s being sung at school graduations all over the country including the middle school graduation that I attended this morning. It isn&#8217;t the lyrics that get to me but something in the melody that says &#8220;You&#8217;ve heard this over and over until you are completely numb.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nassib sends <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM\">this YouTube link<\/a> in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robprocks.com\/\">Rob Paravonian<\/a> explains exactly why.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALERT:<\/strong> N and O&#8217;s David Menconi would like us to know that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.newsobserver.com\/beat\/index.php?title=the_random_interconnectedness_of_all_thi_1&#038;more=1&#038;c=1&#038;tb=1&#038;pb=1\">he wrote about the Paravonian video on Friday December 22, 2006<\/a> on his blog <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.newsobserver.com\/beat\/index.php\">On the Beat<\/a>. Dave finds it mysterious that none of us read about it there. Dave, check the posting date &#8212; err, the weekend of Christmas and I wasn&#8217;t rushing to my computer to read your blog? I guess I&#8217;m a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Loser_(song)\">loser<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I heard Vitamin C&#8217;s Graduation (Friends Forever), I thought it had a catchy melody even tho it became increasingly inane. Today it&#8217;s being sung at school graduations all over the country including the middle school graduation that I attended this morning. It isn&#8217;t the lyrics that get to me but something in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}