{"id":632,"date":"2006-09-23T23:19:52","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T03:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=632"},"modified":"2007-03-02T15:55:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T20:55:03","slug":"a-mouth-full-of-mashed-potatoes-was-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"A mouth full of mashed potatoes was better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Crankpants used to make fun of classical music radio announcers, because they all sounded as if they had mouths full of mashed potatoes when they spoke. &#8220;Tha&#8217; was Car&#8217; Phill&#8217;p Emmmummml Bachhh, perfmmmd by the Vinnnn Symmmphmy.&#8221; Pfeh. Who knew that things would only get worse?<\/p>\n<p>As Mr. Crankypants was driving home this evening, he was listening to a classical radio station. A piece of music ended, and the announcer said, &#8220;That&#8217;s it for me. I&#8217;m glad we had this time together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He made it sound like a cheap date.<\/p>\n<p>No, Mr. Mealy-mouthed Radio Announcer, &#8220;we&#8221; didn&#8217;t have time &#8220;together.&#8221; You are merely an announcer who is supposed to announce the composer, the piece, and the performer(s). Just do your job, and don&#8217;t be cute about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Crankpants used to make fun of classical music radio announcers, because they all sounded as if they had mouths full of mashed potatoes when they spoke. &#8220;Tha&#8217; was Car&#8217; Phill&#8217;p Emmmummml Bachhh, perfmmmd by the Vinnnn Symmmphmy.&#8221; Pfeh. Who knew that things would only get worse? As Mr. Crankypants was driving home this evening, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}