{"id":2648,"date":"2012-09-09T05:16:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T05:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2648"},"modified":"2012-09-09T05:16:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T05:16:38","slug":"in-which-i-cryptically-quote-some-lyrics-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/09\/in-which-i-cryptically-quote-some-lyrics-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which I Cryptically Quote Some Lyrics for You"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Oh every night, and every day<br \/>\nA little piece of you is falling away<br \/>\nBut lift your face, the western way, baby<br \/>\nBuild your muscles as your body decays.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A verse from one my all-time favorite songs, &#8220;Hammer to Fall&#8221; by the inimitable, indispensable Queen. Just a little something that&#8217;s been running through my mind tonight as I contemplate my approaching birthday, my various medical misadventures of the past year &#8212; long story, but don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m okay &#8212; and of course my impending appointment tomorrow with an oral surgeon to get all four of my wisdom teeth yanked, only about 25 years after I probably should have had it done. What can I say, I tend to put things off. As you can probably imagine, I&#8217;m really not looking forward to a week of living on Jello and Lortabs. But that&#8217;s tomorrow, isn&#8217;t it? For tonight, let&#8217;s lose ourselves in the rock and roll, shall we? Which, oddly enough, is the general theme of &#8220;Hammer to Fall&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hjyka1gkodo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Oh every night, and every day A little piece of you is falling away But lift your face, the western way, baby Build your muscles as your body decays.&#8221; A verse from one my all-time favorite songs, &#8220;Hammer to Fall&#8221; by the inimitable, indispensable Queen. Just a little something that&#8217;s been running through my mind [&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-2648","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\/2648","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=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}