{"id":1378,"date":"2007-05-03T06:57:35","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T06:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/03\/put-down-the-duckie\/"},"modified":"2007-05-03T06:57:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-03T06:57:35","slug":"put-down-the-duckie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/03\/put-down-the-duckie\/","title":{"rendered":"Put Down the Duckie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, this has nothing to do with <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/clock\/2007\/05\/more_on_duck_phalluses_and_ute.php\">duck genitalia<\/a>. Instead, it&#8217;s about a <a href=\"http:\/\/kristiner.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/q-what-do-pee-wee-herman-wynton.html\">basic principle of music<\/a>: You&#8217;ve got to put down the duckie if you want to play the saxophone.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/musicalperceptions.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/put-down-duckie.html\">Scott<\/a>. It&#8217;s also a nice reminder of why <cite>Sesame Street<\/cite> was such a brilliant show (and may still be, for all I know&#8230;)&#8211; not only does it have a great tune and silly squeaky noises to keep kids interested, it&#8217;s got all those bizarre cameos to give parents something to look at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, this has nothing to do with duck genitalia. Instead, it&#8217;s about a basic principle of music: You&#8217;ve got to put down the duckie if you want to play the saxophone. Via Scott. It&#8217;s also a nice reminder of why Sesame Street was such a brilliant show (and may still be, for all I know&#8230;)&#8211;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/03\/put-down-the-duckie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Put Down the Duckie<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}