{"id":621,"date":"2002-09-20T17:50:50","date_gmt":"2002-09-21T00:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/09\/20\/621.html"},"modified":"2002-09-20T17:50:50","modified_gmt":"2002-09-21T00:50:50","slug":"growing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/09\/20\/growing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I bought John McCutcheon's new album, <cite>The Greatest Story Never Told;<\/cite> it's now mixed in with my MP3s, in random order.  A song from it just came on: \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.folkmusic.com\/record\/r_story.htm#Grow\">When I Grow Up<\/a>,\" about the fact that now that he's \"pushin' 50 .&nbsp;.&nbsp;. I finally understand \/ It's time to wonder what I'm gonna be \/ When I grow up.\"  Those who know what a sucker I am for charming won't be surprised to know that I was charmed by this.  The lyrics work better with the music, but they're not bad on their own; follow the link to see 'em.  Favorite line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And I wanna be wise;<br>\nIt&#8217;s a whole lot better than being smart.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p(I'm obliquely reminded of a friend who once told me that her goal was to be wise without knowing it.  I told her if she didn't think she was already wise, then she'd already accomplished her goal.)<\/p>\n<p>In other news, my sniffles seem to have stopped!  Of course, they've stopped several times earlier today, only to start again as soon as I get up from my desk and walk around.<\/p>\n<p>Ooh, now it's Loreena McKennitt on iTunes, and I never caught these particular lyrics (from \"Stolen Child\") before:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We seek for slumbering trout,<br>\nAnd, whispering in their ears,<br>\nGive them unquiet dreams.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They're not illiterate, those fish.  They know a thing or two.<\/p>\n<p>(He said, obliquely.  George Hitchcock.  Good stuff.)\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought John McCutcheon&#8217;s new album, The Greatest Story Never Told; it&#8217;s now mixed in with my MP3s, in random&#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-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","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=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}