{"id":8185,"date":"2020-07-04T20:58:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-05T03:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=8185"},"modified":"2020-07-08T09:06:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T16:06:18","slug":"i-dont-want-to-wear-a-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2020\/07\/i-dont-want-to-wear-a-mask\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Don\u2019t Want To Wear a Mask\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just in time for Independence Day, here&#8217;s a song about how nobody tells me what to do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IDontWantToWearAMask-pdf-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8191\"\/><figcaption>Click the image above for a PDF of the sheet music.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>1. I went out to buy some food,<br \/>They wouldn\u2019t let me in the store,<br \/>Said I had to wear a mask,<br \/>I shook my fist, I cursed and swore:<br \/>I don\u2019t want to wear a mask,<br \/>I don\u2019t want to look a fool,<br \/>Makes me feel uncomfortable,<br \/>No one tells me what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. I went to the park today<br \/>And started hanging out with friends,<br \/>They all stayed six feet away,<br \/>I said our friendship\u2019s at an end:<br \/>Don\u2019t you social distance me,<br \/>COVID\u2019s no worse than the flu,<br \/>Six feet is too far away,<br \/>No one tells me what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. I\u2019m a free American,<br \/>Don\u2019t trample on my civil rights,<br \/>If you make me wear a mask,<br \/>I\u2019ll get a gun, I\u2019ll start a fight:<br \/>Masks are unamerican,<br \/>They are not red, white, and blue,<br \/>I am like my President,<br \/>No one tells me what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. I began to cough a bit,<br \/>My temperature hit 102,<br \/>Had a tracheotomy,<br \/>And now I\u2019m in the I. C. U.:<br \/>Now I never wear a mask,<br \/>I don\u2019t have to look a fool,<br \/>They say I may not make it, but<br \/>No one tells me what to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Update July 8: Revised music and lyrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for Independence Day, here&#8217;s a song about how nobody tells me what to do: 1. I went out to buy some food,They wouldn\u2019t let me in the store,Said I had to wear a mask,I shook my fist, I cursed and swore:I don\u2019t want to wear a mask,I don\u2019t want to look a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2020\/07\/i-dont-want-to-wear-a-mask\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;\u201cI Don\u2019t Want To Wear a Mask\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[739],"class_list":["post-8185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musical-arts","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8185"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8192,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8185\/revisions\/8192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}