{"id":1229,"date":"2003-06-18T00:58:49","date_gmt":"2003-06-18T07:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/06\/18\/1229.html"},"modified":"2003-06-18T00:58:49","modified_gmt":"2003-06-18T07:58:49","slug":"mondegreen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/06\/18\/mondegreen\/","title":{"rendered":"Mondegreen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/words\/upper2\/MMondegreens.html\">Mondegreens<\/a> are the ones that you don't know are Mondegreens for years.<\/p>\n<p>I think it was only sometime in the last month that I finally figured out that a line in Billy Joel's \"Piano Man\" isn't quite as unusual as I always thought.  I always thought it went like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"lyrics\">He says, \"Son, can you play me a memory?<\/p>\n<p class=\"lyrics\">I'm not really sure how it goes,<\/p>\n<p class=\"lyrics\">But it's sad and it's sweet, and I knew it complete<\/p>\n<p class=\"lyrics\">When I wore a young woman's clothes.\"<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Turns out what he actually wore was <em>a younger man's clothes.<\/em>  Who knew?  I always just figured he was a transvestite.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best Mondegreens are the ones that you don&#8217;t know are Mondegreens for years. I think it was only sometime&#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-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","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=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}