{"id":539,"date":"2006-04-28T17:04:54","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T17:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2006-04-28T17:04:54","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T17:04:54","slug":"we_learned_about_love_in_the_b_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/04\/28\/we_learned_about_love_in_the_b_1\/","title":{"rendered":"We Learned About Love in the&#8230; BackofaDodge&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishbook\/\">Sears Wishbook<\/a> isn&#8217;t enough entertainment for you on this long, sunny Friday afternoon, how about this: the immortal William Shatner performing Harry Chapin&#8217;s &#8220;Taxi&#8221; in the same melodramatic, spoken-word style that has made his rendition of &#8220;Rocket Man&#8221; such a classic.<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Ed. note:<\/strong> I moved the video player below the fold for the convenience of dial-uppers, and also just to keep the place tidy&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<object width=\"410\" height=\"332\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" align=\"middle\" bgcolor=\"000000\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.ifilm.com\/efp\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"flvBaseClip=2722361\" \/><embed width=\"410\" height=\"332\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ifilm.com\/efp\" quality=\"high\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" flashvars=\"flvBaseClip=2722361\" align=\"middle\" bgcolor=\"000000\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Shatner takes a lot of guff for his &#8220;interpretations&#8221; of various popular songs, but I actually find some of them &#8212; like this one, for instance &#8212; oddly effective and compelling. But then I <i>am<\/i> kind of weird&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the Sears Wishbook isn&#8217;t enough entertainment for you on this long, sunny Friday afternoon, how about this: the immortal William Shatner performing Harry Chapin&#8217;s &#8220;Taxi&#8221; in the same melodramatic, spoken-word style that has made his rendition of &#8220;Rocket Man&#8221; such a classic. [Ed. note: I moved the video player below the fold for the [&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-539","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\/539","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=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}