{"id":11799,"date":"2012-08-05T18:44:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T23:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11799"},"modified":"2022-07-26T17:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T22:23:04","slug":"origin-of-that-thing-daddy-always-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/05\/origin-of-that-thing-daddy-always-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Origin of That Thing Daddy Always Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes time to apply sunscreen to my children in the summer, I&#8217;m prone to saying to the children, &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s free to wear sunscreen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the title of a song by Baz Luhrmann from 1999.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sTJ7AzBIJoI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I remember it because 1999 was a pivotal year in my life: I got married, moved from an apartment into a rental house that would be my first home with my beautiful wife, and I remember hearing that song on the radio in my office in that new house.  The song charted <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wear_Sunscreen#Charts_and_certifications\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and reached #10<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when I heard the song that I recognized it; not because I&#8217;d seen it in an email forward that said Kurt Vonnegut had written it.  No, my friends, I&#8217;d seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/columnists\/chi-schmich-sunscreen-column,0,4054576.column\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the original column by Mary Schmich<\/a>.  I&#8217;d gotten my first office desk job as a technical writer in the explosion of the Internet but before the rise of blogs, so I spent a lot of time in those days reading the Web sites of major city dailies, like the <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em> (along with the <em>Chicago Sun-Times<\/em>, <em>Washington Post<\/em>, <em>New York Times<\/em>, <em>New York Daily News<\/em>, <em>New York Post<\/em>, <em>Washington Times<\/em>, <em>San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>, and so on and so on).  When I found I liked a columnist, like Mary Schmich (and Bob Greene and John Kass), I read their complete archives.  So I was familiar with the column before the song came out.<\/p>\n<p>But the song, too, sticks with me even now.  You don&#8217;t hear it on the radio any more and probably won&#8217;t find it on any K-Tel collections of music from the 1990s (although I hear <em>Grunge Rock<\/em> is going to be huge&#8211;well, turn it up, man!). <\/p>\n<p>The only place you&#8217;d hear it any more is the backwater corners of the Internet.  Or, if you&#8217;re my children, almost every day, every summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes time to apply sunscreen to my children in the summer, I&#8217;m prone to saying to the children, &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s free to wear sunscreen.&#8221; That&#8217;s the title of a song by Baz Luhrmann from 1999. I remember it because 1999 was a pivotal year in my life: I got married, moved from an apartment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddy-always-says","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11799"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30158,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799\/revisions\/30158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}