{"id":2604,"date":"2005-08-16T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-16T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2018-02-11T16:27:10","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:27:10","slug":"thanks-for-checking-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/16\/thanks-for-checking-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks For Checking In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby McFerrin stops in to tell us he&#8217;s going <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews1.iwon.com\/article\/20050816\/D8C0K1J00.html\" target=\"_new\">on vacation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For years he&#8217;s been telling people, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Worry, Be Happy.&#8221; Now Bobby McFerrin has decided it&#8217;s time to take his own advice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got one week left, and then I&#8217;m done for a year,&#8221; a weary McFerrin told The Associated Press during a weekend visit to UCLA, where he was accepting an award from the Henry Mancini Institute for his contributions to music.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t had a sabbatical, I haven&#8217;t taken a year off from touring in 15 years at least,&#8221; said McFerrin, whose bright and bouncy ditty, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Worry, Be Happy,&#8221; seemed to put his name on everybody&#8217;s lips in 1988 when it won Grammys for song of the year and record of the year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some of us might be forgiven in thinking that McFerrin&#8217;s been on vacation for about 17 years, give or take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobby McFerrin stops in to tell us he&#8217;s going on vacation: For years he&#8217;s been telling people, &#8220;Don&#8217;t Worry, Be Happy.&#8221; Now Bobby McFerrin has decided it&#8217;s time to take his own advice. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got one week left, and then I&#8217;m done for a year,&#8221; a weary McFerrin told The Associated Press during a weekend [&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-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","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=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19428,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/19428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}