{"id":1099,"date":"2003-04-29T23:45:32","date_gmt":"2003-04-30T06:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/04\/29\/1099.html"},"modified":"2003-04-29T23:45:32","modified_gmt":"2003-04-30T06:45:32","slug":"food-and-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/04\/29\/food-and-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Food and music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We had breakfast this morning at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dickclarkproductions.com\/html\/restaurants.html\">Dick Clark's American Bandstand Grill<\/a> in the SLC airport.  The sort of place I would normally go out of my way to avoid, but the food was surprisingly good, especially for airport food, and I have to admit that I actually kinda enjoyed some of the music.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before I left, Nena's \"99 Luftballons\" came on.  Been years since I've heard that.  I was hoping that the new Apple Music Store would have it available, but no. (Whoa&#8212;the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0000025ZI\/ref=nosim\/strangehorizons\">album<\/a>'s still in print and available from Amazon.  Almost tempting just for the one song.)<\/p>\n<p>Catchiest song I know of about nuclear destruction.  I suspect the English version isn't played in airports very often.  Though on the other hand, I suspect most people who've heard the English version haven't ever listened to the <a href=\"http:\/\/members.aol.com\/Oxym0r0n99\/nena.html\">lyrics<\/a> (which, btw, don't really scan to the music, but I guess that's what happens when you translate a pop song from German (though \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsxp.com\/lyrics\/m\/major_tom_coming_home_peter_schilling.html\">Major Tom<\/a>\" fared a little better)), so maybe it would be fine.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had breakfast this morning at Dick Clark&#8217;s American Bandstand Grill in the SLC airport. The sort of place I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}