{"id":25198,"date":"2019-10-21T07:43:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T12:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25198"},"modified":"2019-10-21T07:02:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T12:02:36","slug":"intersection-of-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/21\/intersection-of-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"Intersection of Interests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been reading the Ogden Nash poetry collection that&#8217;s been spotted <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/17\/the-book-accumulation-points-of-brian-j\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on a book accumulation point<\/a>, and I carried it to church in St. Louis this week.  I read a couple, and I took a break to read the <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/383807.php\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ace of Spades HQ Book Thread<\/a> and then to read the Ogden Nash Wikipedia entry, when suddenly I encountered information that should have been accompanied by the dramatic sound of a needle stopping on a record.<\/p>\n<p>Ogden Nash wrote the lyrics for the jazz standard &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Speak_Low\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Speak Low<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Say what?<\/p>\n<p>You mean the song performed by the lovely Sacha Boutros?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jvSmlJvgLpk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>No way.<\/p>\n<p>Way.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Ogden Nash wrote part of a Broadway musical, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/One_Touch_of_Venus\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One Touch of Venus<\/em><\/a>, in which this song originated.  And it&#8217;s the only thing anyone remembers from it, no doubt.  The song has been covered by singers from Sammy Davis, Jr., to Steve Lawrence (but not, as far as I can tell, Eydie Gorme).<\/p>\n<p>You know, my estimation of <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?s=%22Ogden+Nash%22+%22Book+Report%22\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the man<\/a> is elevated to a degree I cannot express with your primitive Earthen mathematical symbols and concepts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve been reading the Ogden Nash poetry collection that&#8217;s been spotted on a book accumulation point, and I carried it to church in St. Louis this week. I read a couple, and I took a break to read the Ace of Spades HQ Book Thread and then to read the Ogden Nash Wikipedia entry, [&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-25198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25198","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=25198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25200,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25198\/revisions\/25200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}