{"id":113,"date":"2005-10-30T23:32:14","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T03:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=113"},"modified":"2007-09-03T17:12:57","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:12:57","slug":"itunes-serendipity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"iTunes Serendipity"},"content":{"rendered":"

These lines just came up in a random selection from the 10,785 cuts on my laptop’s iTunes (44.88 GB, 23 days, 3 hours, 56 minutes, and 39 seconds):<\/p>\n

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And Scooter’s just a basket-case,
\nhe won’t accept my calls.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

However, the wider context shows that the lines have nothing to do with current events:<\/p>\n

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Molly’s nose is warm and dry,
\nsince she sat and watched you pack.
\nShe figures that you must be lost
\nand can’t find your way back.
\nAnd Scooter’s just a basket case,
\nhe won’t accept my calls.
\nHis squeaky toy lies silent,
\nhe’s lost interest in his balls<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The song is “The Dogs They Really Miss You”, by the Austin Lounge Lizards, a tragicomic tune about the effects of divorce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These lines just came up in a random selection from the 10,785 cuts on my laptop’s iTunes (44.88 GB, 23 days, 3 hours, 56 minutes, and 39 seconds): And Scooter’s just a basket-case, he won’t accept my calls. However, the wider context shows that the lines have nothing to do with current events: Molly’s nose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}