{"id":24275,"date":"2019-02-22T09:14:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T15:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24275"},"modified":"2019-02-22T09:14:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T15:14:34","slug":"haunted-by-a-melody-briefly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/22\/haunted-by-a-melody-briefly\/","title":{"rendered":"Haunted By A Melody, Briefly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So last evening as I folded some laundry, I was humming a bit of a song that I remembered from my youth.  I didn&#8217;t know much of it, but I repeated a motif of it over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>I wondered if I could find it on the Internet.  I was not sanguine; I was not even sure if the lyrics I remembered were correct, and, besides, I&#8217;m <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/20\/vodkapundit-channels-qahy\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">used to liking a song and not knowing anything about it for years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But I typed &#8220;is everything alright i just called&#8221; into Bing, and it started auto-suggesting the next words, and the song is <em>obviously<\/em> (to the computers of the Internet) &#8220;Hearts&#8221; by Marty Balin:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/67eJfCZg0-w\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, this worldwide computer amazes me.<\/p>\n<p>The song is from 1981, the year <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/13\/parenting-goal\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my parents&#8217; marriage broke up<\/a>.  In my unreliable memory, we heard this song in heavy rotation on the way to and while at my grandfather&#8217;s cabin in the upper peninsula of Michigan not far from the Wisconsin state line.  I relate a couple of different songs to that venue because the cabin had an old cathedral radio in it, and on rainy days we didn&#8217;t have much to do but listen to it and the hiss of rain outside.  If I remember correctly, this must have been in the summer before the bottom dropped out.  <\/p>\n<p>The song sort of fits my mood.  As some of you know, I just celebrated a birthday, and, if I make it to next January, I will have lived longer than my father did.  So I&#8217;m ruminating and marinating in a blend of nostalgia and melancholia.  The song and melody fit right in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So last evening as I folded some laundry, I was humming a bit of a song that I remembered from my youth. I didn&#8217;t know much of it, but I repeated a motif of it over and over again. I wondered if I could find it on the Internet. I was not sanguine; I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24275","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=24275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24278,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24275\/revisions\/24278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}