{"id":10201,"date":"2006-04-30T09:30:26","date_gmt":"2006-04-30T13:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2006\/04\/30\/10201.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:54:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:54:50","slug":"circuitous-but-lyrical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2006\/04\/30\/circuitous-but-lyrical\/","title":{"rendered":"Circuitous but lyrical"},"content":{"rendered":"\nRidiculous meme, but it seems to be enjoyable, yoinked from The Burgess Shale:\n<blockquote>Whip out your music program, click the random button, and pick out 10 songs. Alter the name by turning it into a convoluted, wordy synonym. For example: Silent Night = Nocturnal Time Completely Lacking Noise. When someone guesses the title correctly, italicize the convoluted one and put the real title and the person who figured it out.<\/blockquote>\n<ol><li><I>Hazard an inquiry into the identity of the person who has arrived in the metropolitan area<\/I>: Guess Who&#8217;s in Town (recorded by Bobby Short), Kendra\/Nao (close enough)<\/li>\n<li><I>This infant of mine has no emotional attachment to persons other than myself<\/I>: My Baby Only Cares for Me (recorded by Katherine Whalen), Kendra (who missed the possessive, but got the song right)<\/li>\n<li><I>Depart with me<\/I>: Let&#8217;s Go (recorded by the Cars), Michael<\/li>\n<li>All terrestrial substances<\/li>\n<li><I>Atop a brume of CuAl<sub>6<\/sub>(PO<sub>4<\/sub>)<sub>4<\/sub>(OH)<sub>8<\/sub>\ufffd4H<sub>2<\/sub>O<\/I>: On a Turquoise Cloud (recorded by Duke Ellington), Stephen<\/li>\n<li><I>Half a fortnight<\/I>: One Week (recorded by Barenaked Ladies), Melissa R<\/li>\n<li><I>Infused Camellia, T\ufffdte &agrave; T\ufffdte<\/I> (or, alternately, Don&#8217;t bogart that joint, it&#8217;s just you and me): Tea for Two (recorded by Duke Ellington), Stephen<\/li>\n<li><I>Hatchway leading down to a subterranean room<\/I>: Cellar Door (recorded by Laura Cantrell), Melissa R.<\/li>\n<li><I>Withdraw a bit<\/I>: Get Back (recorded by The Beatles), Michael<\/li>\n<li><I>Impregnable Terpsichore<\/I>: The Safety Dance, Stephen<\/li><\/ol>\n<p>As a bonus, because it&#8217;s actually quite hard to stop, there&#8217;s Mortified Stramineousness, The Sunny Season under Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, and One Has Got.\n<p><I>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek<\/I>,<br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ridiculous meme, but it seems to be enjoyable, yoinked from The Burgess Shale: Whip out your music program, click the random button, and pick out 10 songs. Alter the name by turning it into a convoluted, wordy synonym. For example:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-music-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17740,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201\/revisions\/17740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}