{"id":2186,"date":"2011-07-05T17:18:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T17:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2011-07-05T17:18:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T17:18:59","slug":"say_what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/05\/say_what\/","title":{"rendered":"Say What?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/tendency\">McSweeney&#8217;s Internet Tendency<\/a> has posted an incisive and terribly important piece of psychological insight: a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/what-your-favorite-80s-band-says-about-you\">list <\/a>entitled &#8220;What Your Favorite &#8217;80s Band Says About You.&#8221; But while many of the items on this list are right on target &#8212; if your fave is Big Country, for example, you probably have a <em>Highlander<\/em> poster in a tube in the back of your closet; get it? Big Country was a Scottish band, <i>Highlander<\/i> is about an immortal Scotsman &#8212; I have to confess that I&#8217;m utterly baffled by the one that best applies to me. Here it is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Rick Springfield:<\/strong> Your wallet weighs over a pound.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Huh? WTF is that supposed to mean? Anyone? My wallet&#8230; weighs&#8230; over a pound. Why would it weigh so much? And what does liking Rick Springfield have to do with that? Sometimes, I feel very dense&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McSweeney&#8217;s Internet Tendency has posted an incisive and terribly important piece of psychological insight: a list entitled &#8220;What Your Favorite &#8217;80s Band Says About You.&#8221; But while many of the items on this list are right on target &#8212; if your fave is Big Country, for example, you probably have a Highlander poster in a [&hellip;]<\/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-2186","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\/2186","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=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}