{"id":125,"date":"2003-07-21T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-21T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2018-08-02T15:21:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T20:21:15","slug":"125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/21\/125\/","title":{"rendered":"Is &#8220;Iris&#8221; a Love Song?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people seem to think that the Goo Goo Dolls&#8217; song &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsfreak.com\/g\/goo-goo-dolls\/61324.html\" target=\"new\">Iris<\/a>&#8221; is a love song.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think it&#8217;s begging for a restraining order.  Hell, I creeped out women with mere <i>sonnets<\/i> describing their beauty, much less anything with the lines of<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You\u2019re the closest to heaven that I&#8217;ll<br \/>\nEver be<br \/>\nAnd I don\u2019t want to go home right now<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhen everything\u2019s made to be broken<br \/>\nI just want you to know who I am<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.umkc.edu\/faculty\/projects\/ftrials\/hinckley\/HBIO.HTM\" target=\"new\">John Hinckley, Jr.,<\/a> might have hummed this tune were it around in 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people seem to think that the Goo Goo Dolls&#8217; song &#8220;Iris&#8221; is a love song. Personally, I think it&#8217;s begging for a restraining order. Hell, I creeped out women with mere sonnets describing their beauty, much less anything with the lines of You\u2019re the closest to heaven that I&#8217;ll Ever be And I don\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","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=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21341,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/21341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}