{"id":217,"date":"2007-11-25T21:04:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T02:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2007-11-25T21:04:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T02:04:36","slug":"i-guess-its-just-what-i-must-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/25\/i-guess-its-just-what-i-must-do\/","title":{"rendered":"i guess it&#8217;s just what i must do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t-TjiL3Ualw\" target=\"_blank\">an ad for some crazy cookie<\/a> running through my head right now? Well it all started a coupla weeks ago when Gus came home from school singing a song. That in and of itself is noteworthy, since he&#8217;s typically kind of anti-music (shocking, I know!).<\/p>\n<p>So he&#8217;s singing to himself, and I can just barely make it out: &#8220;don&#8217;t you want me baby, don&#8217;t you want me baby.&#8221; And I am thinking, WHO is playing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=arUqoKjU3D4&#038;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">Human League<\/a> for that kid?! It can&#8217;t be me, because I only have that song on vinyl and the turntable is not hooked up right now.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed likely that one of his friends at school was singing it, and Jonathan suggested that maybe the song is being sampled in a current pop\/r+b hit tune. I googled the song title, but I found nothing popular music-ish.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I did find: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Yz4u8XXUgxA&#038;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">a cookie commercial<\/a> (that supposedly aired during the Super Bowl last year). We neither watch (live) TV nor football (of any sort), so of course we hadn&#8217;t seen this. But it seems like a promising suspect, no?<\/p>\n<p>I called Gus in to watch the commercial on YouTube, and then we had to watch the <i>other<\/i> commercial, too. And here I am, two weeks later. Oi oi oi!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I have an ad for some crazy cookie running through my head right now? Well it all started a coupla weeks ago when Gus came home from school singing a song. That in and of itself is noteworthy, since he&#8217;s typically kind of anti-music (shocking, I know!). So he&#8217;s singing to himself, and [&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-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}