{"id":3365,"date":"2009-01-29T13:05:17","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T13:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/29\/pop-culture-interlude-least-gr\/"},"modified":"2009-01-29T13:05:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T13:05:17","slug":"pop-culture-interlude-least-gr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/29\/pop-culture-interlude-least-gr\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Culture Interlude: Least Grammatical Lyrics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking of trying to post something really erudite about science today, but a series of minor catastrophes has completely derailed that plan. Now, I&#8217;m just hoping to get through my afternoon lab without punching anybody.<\/p>\n<p>So, in place of the science stuff, here&#8217;s a pop music topic. While on the way to pick up SteelyKid from day care the other day, I heard &#8220;Live and Let Die&#8221; on the radio, which famously includes the phrase:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;this ever-changing world in which we live in&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A few hours later, the cable tv music channel brought up &#8220;Small Town&#8221; by John Mellencamp (I don&#8217;t recall whether there was a &#8220;Cougar&#8221; in his name at that point or not), which includes the line:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I cannot forget from where it is that I come from&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, the question is: What is the most stupidly ungrammatical song lyric ever? One of these, or some other song?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking of trying to post something really erudite about science today, but a series of minor catastrophes has completely derailed that plan. Now, I&#8217;m just hoping to get through my afternoon lab without punching anybody. So, in place of the science stuff, here&#8217;s a pop music topic. While on the way to pick&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2009\/01\/29\/pop-culture-interlude-least-gr\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pop Culture Interlude: Least Grammatical Lyrics?<\/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":[15,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365","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=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}