{"id":3993,"date":"2009-03-31T19:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2023-03-31T19:14:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T23:14:55","slug":"whatd-they-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/?p=3993","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What&#8217;d they say???&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For many, many years before the advent of the World Wide Web I would struggle with lyrics to certain songs. There are some passages that just don&#8217;t seem to make sense, and you can&#8217;t make out the words no matter HOW closely you listen. If you&#8217;re ever caught singing the song out loud, you just sort of mumble past that line and hope no one notices. Everyone does it, don&#8217;t try and tell me you never have, &#8217;cause you&#8217;re lying if you do. \ud83d\ude42<br \/><br \/>I have found that the trick to &#8220;getting&#8221; them is to not actually LISTEN. Kind of like learning to fly (a la The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide To The Galaxy)&#8211;you have to throw yourself at the ground and miss. It&#8217;s happened to me many times over the years. I&#8217;ll be lost in thought, usually while driving, and &lt;some song&gt; will be on the radio and my subconscious will jerk me back to reality and I&#8217;ll scream, &#8220;THAT&#8217;S what they&#8217;re saying!!!&#8221;<br \/><br \/>Anyhow, the whole point here is that &#8220;Redondo Beach, LA&#8221; is mentioned in &#8220;Surfin&#8217; USA&#8221; by the Beach Boys. I thought you&#8217;d like to know. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many, many years before the advent of the World Wide Web I would struggle with lyrics to certain songs. There are some passages that just don&#8217;t seem to make sense, and you can&#8217;t make out the words no matter HOW closely you listen. If you&#8217;re ever caught singing the song out loud, you just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3994,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions\/3994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}