{"id":1798,"date":"2004-12-24T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-24T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2018-07-28T15:47:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T20:47:31","slug":"1798","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/24\/1798\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophistication, Thy Antonym is Noggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Richard Roeper identified <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/roeper\/cst-nws-roep22.html\" target=\"_new\">the worst holiday songs<\/a> and assigns the worst ribbon to &#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221; by the Singing Dogs, which leads me to confess: I have this song on a cassette single.<\/p>\n<p>As Roeper mentioned it, I put it in the old cassette deck and clicked the play button.  <i>And sang along<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, I am just a suburban schmuck and not a big-city sophisticate (pronounced as <i>Frenchly<\/i> as possible), but even I have limits.  For example, I don&#8217;t care for the Singing Dogs&#8217; rendition of &#8220;Oh, Susanna&#8221; which is the flip side of the tape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Richard Roeper identified the worst holiday songs and assigns the worst ribbon to &#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221; by the Singing Dogs, which leads me to confess: I have this song on a cassette single. As Roeper mentioned it, I put it in the old cassette deck and clicked the play button. And sang along. Granted, [&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-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","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=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20757,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/20757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}