{"id":14369,"date":"2015-03-11T06:08:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T11:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14369"},"modified":"2015-03-11T06:08:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T11:08:16","slug":"the-source-of-that-thing-daddy-always-sings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/11\/the-source-of-that-thing-daddy-always-sings\/","title":{"rendered":"The Source Of That Thing Daddy Always Sings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back when my children were young, which was not so long ago and yet was a very long time ago, they&#8217;d watch a PBS program called <em>Between the Lions<\/em> which featured a segment called Cliff Hanger that had a little theme song:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cliff Hanger,<br \/>\nHanging from a cliff,<br \/>\nand that&#8217;s why they call him Cliff Hanger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iAUwbOt3N0o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ever since, I&#8217;ve been using this song for any three syllable phrase that ends in -er.  Like the grocery store Price Cutter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Price Cutter,<br \/>\nThey&#8217;re cutting all the prices,<br \/>\nand that&#8217;s why they call them Price Cutter<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(In the St. Louis area, you might want to substitute <em>Price Chopper<\/em> for the same effect.)<\/p>\n<p>Or for the tabby I&#8217;ve nicknamed &#8220;Big Bopper&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Big Bopper,<br \/>\nThe bopper who is big.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s why they call him Big Bopper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Not to be confused with the recently former kitten I&#8217;ve nicknamed &#8220;Little Bopper&#8221; but who is now as large as &#8220;Big Bopper.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, <em>Between the Lions<\/em> came to my oldest boy&#8217;s mind recently, and he talked about a segment or episode of it at the dinner table.  I said, &#8220;You know, that&#8217;s where I got the song from.&#8221;  <em>And he didn&#8217;t remember the Cliff Hanger segments or the theme song.<\/em>  Even though it was only a couple of years ago that he watched them.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, this is why I must post these footnotes to the things I say to my children.  Not just to prove that I&#8217;m not making everything up out of whole cloth, but also so that I remember in the coming years where these tropes come from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when my children were young, which was not so long ago and yet was a very long time ago, they&#8217;d watch a PBS program called Between the Lions which featured a segment called Cliff Hanger that had a little theme song: Cliff Hanger, Hanging from a cliff, and that&#8217;s why they call him Cliff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14369","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=14369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14370,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14369\/revisions\/14370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}