{"id":1481,"date":"2011-12-21T19:28:14","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T19:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2011-12-18T19:30:53","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T19:30:53","slug":"waiting-for-the-beat-to-kick-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/waiting-for-the-beat-to-kick-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting For The Beat To Kick In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nWhile watching <i>Harvey<\/i> with Mrs. Monkeyshines recently, one of Elwood P. Dowd&#8217;s lines struck me as a nice complementary quote to the one in a Kurt Vonnegut book <a href='\/blog\/archives\/927' title='Everything A Baby Needs To Know'>which I wrote about before<\/a>. And since such thoughts seem appropriately Christmassy, and because I&#8217;ve been listening to Dan Le Sac\/Scroobius Pip lately, I was minded to set down the quote. (Listen to the song below to understand the significance of the Scroobius Pip reference; NSFW due to swears. If you already got the reference, award yourself a gold star.)\n<\/p>\n<p style='padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px;'>\n&#8220;Years ago my mother used to say to me, she&#8217;d say, &#8216;In this world, Elwood, you must be&#8217; \u2013 she always called me Elwood \u2013 &#8216;In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.&#8217; Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p style='padding-top: 20px;'>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SFuQ84-qsvk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While watching Harvey with Mrs. Monkeyshines recently, one of Elwood P. Dowd&#8217;s lines struck me as a nice complementary quote to the one in a Kurt Vonnegut book which I wrote about before. And since such thoughts seem appropriately Christmassy, and because I&#8217;ve been listening to Dan Le Sac\/Scroobius Pip lately, I was minded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paternal","tag-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}