{"id":1267,"date":"2008-01-23T17:21:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T17:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2008-01-23T17:21:48","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T17:21:48","slug":"shes_a_modern_day_delilah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/23\/shes_a_modern_day_delilah\/","title":{"rendered":"She’s a Modern Day Delilah"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to current music — in the time-honored tradition of grumpy old farts throughout history, I tend to think it all went to hell after my teen and young-adult years — but every once in a while, a song comes along that’s so ubiquitous, it manages to penetrate even my indifference. There was such a song last summer, a sweet and catchy little ditty that I quite liked called “Hey There Delilah”<\/a> by the Plain White T’s.<\/p>\n

I found out today that there really is<\/i> a Delilah, specifically a young lady named Delilah DiCrescenzo. Tom Higgenson, the lead singer for the Plain White T\u2019s, met her several years ago and, in an effort to impress her, he promised to write a song for her. She had a boyfriend, so their romance went nowhere, but he nevertheless kept his promise. The song became the band’s break-out hit and has been nominated for a Grammy. And Delilah is finally going to go out with him, as his date for the Grammy ceremony. She still has a boyfriend so they’re going strictly as friends, but even with that little imperfection, I find this story simply charming. It’d make a good plot for a movie, actually…<\/p>\n

Details are here<\/a>, if you’re interested. And I’ll give a Stan Lee-style “no-prize” to the first loyal reader who can tell me where this entry’s title derives from…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to current music — in the time-honored tradition of grumpy old farts throughout history, I tend to think it all went to hell after my teen and young-adult years — but every once in a while, a song comes along that’s so ubiquitous, it manages to penetrate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}