{"id":636,"date":"2004-01-26T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/default.asp?n=172"},"modified":"2004-01-26T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-27T06:00:00","slug":"what-im-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;m talking about."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there.<\/p>\n<p \/>Reading about <a href=http:\/\/www.scatterboy.com\/weblog\/27jan04.html target=boy>Jay&#8217;s search for a song<\/a>, which I&#8217;m pretty sure he dreamed about and doesn&#8217;t really exist, for some reason reminded me of my favorite childhood song. Whenever I ask people if they know it, they don&#8217;t, and then I&#8217;m obligated to sing it to them in its ten-verse entirety, shouting and all.<\/p>\n<p \/>So now I&#8217;m asking you, in informal-survey format:<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div align=center><a name=1><\/a><i>Do you know the Chicago fire song<span class=small><sup><a href=#n1>1<\/a><\/sup><\/span>?<\/i><\/p>\n<p \/><a href='mailto:j@plinko.net?subject=yes, and i would like to accompany you in a rousing singalong.'><b>YES!<\/b><\/a>&#160;&#160;<a href='mailto:j@plinko.net?subject=no. also, i suck.'><b>NO.<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n<p \/>So, in doing research on the Chicago fire song, I have made an incredibly important discovery. I think this may, in fact, be <b>the most important document ever published on the internet<\/b>. OK, don&#8217;t let the fact that it&#8217;s a 100-page pdf deter you: you will be glad you downloaded, and printed, and made many many copies of it. You will be glad you passed out copies to everyone you know. Trust me.<\/p>\n<p \/><a href=http:\/\/www.rugbysongs.net\/rugbysng.pdf target=boy>Enjoy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p \/>Jenni<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class=small><a name=n1><\/a><sup><a href=#1>1<\/a><\/sup> It&#8217;s the one that starts out:<\/p>\n<p \/><i>Ten nights ago, when we were all in bed<br \/>Old lady Leary put a lantern in the shed&#8230;<br \/><\/i><br \/>And so on, until Chicago burns down. Apparently, it&#8217;s a girl scout classic, which is probably where I learned it, although I like to believe it&#8217;s part of the residency requirements when growing up in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there. Reading about Jay&#8217;s search for a song, which I&#8217;m pretty sure he dreamed about and doesn&#8217;t really exist, for some reason reminded me of my favorite childhood song. Whenever I ask people if they know it, they don&#8217;t, and then I&#8217;m obligated to sing it to them in its ten-verse entirety, shouting and &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=636\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9qt-ag","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}