{"id":11164,"date":"2021-07-17T11:23:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T16:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=11164"},"modified":"2021-07-17T11:23:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T16:23:57","slug":"however-some-things-are-hard-to-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/11164","title":{"rendered":"However, Some Things Are Hard To Parody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some years ago I had a dream one morning just before waking. I was watching some sort of music video channel and it was broadcasting a collection of videos themed as &#8220;The Descendants Of PDQ Bach.&#8221; So you had PDQ Moby, and PDQ Mantovani, and PDQ Yanni, and PDQ Vangelis and PDQ Horner, and so on and it was hilarious.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow my dreaming brain was able to construct believable parodies of all their musical tropes and it was so funny I woke up laughing. Of course now I couldn&#8217;t remember any of the actual tunes, but I still vaguely remember PDQ Mantovani&#8217;s easy listening rendering of a Celine Dion song that was itself a parody of something Dion might have sung that cracked me up.<\/p>\n<p>Someone should do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some years ago I had a dream one morning just before waking. I was watching some sort of music video channel and it was broadcasting a collection of videos themed as &#8220;The Descendants Of PDQ Bach.&#8221; So you had PDQ Moby, and PDQ Mantovani, and PDQ Yanni, and PDQ Vangelis and PDQ Horner, and so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-11164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-schrodingers-bag-o-laughs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}