{"id":8071,"date":"2012-01-08T22:31:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T03:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8071"},"modified":"2012-01-08T22:31:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T03:31:03","slug":"song-of-the-day-553","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8071","title":{"rendered":"Song of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Party in the CIA&#8221; by Weird Al Yankovic<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C-CG5w4YwOI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t too familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M11SvDtPBhA&#038;ob=av3e\">the original<\/a> when I first heard Weird Al&#8217;s parody, but I liked his version so much that, not only did I include it on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8019\">best of the year mix<\/a>, but I sat through a full three and a half minutes of Miley Cyrus. (And that&#8217;s <i>with<\/i> the cognitive dissonance of the thought of her rocking out to a Jay-Z song.) I liked the parody so much, maybe it was the original song I was responding to.<\/p>\n<p>Not quite. The song has a decent hook, but Yankovic improves on it on almost every level, musically and lyrically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Party in the CIA&#8221; by Weird Al Yankovic I wasn&#8217;t too familiar with the original when I first heard Weird Al&#8217;s parody, but I liked his version so much that, not only did I include it on best of the year mix, but I sat through a full three and a half minutes of Miley &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=8071\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[240],"class_list":["post-8071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-day","tag-song-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}