{"id":17997,"date":"2019-08-31T15:02:35","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T22:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17997"},"modified":"2019-08-31T15:02:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T22:02:35","slug":"hallelujah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/08\/31\/hallelujah\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallelujah"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>On Tumblr a year or two back, in a discussion of Leonard Cohen\u2019s song \u201cHallelujah,\u201d user bigscaryd noted that the phrase \u201ctag your favorite line of hallelujah\u201d scans to the meter of the song.<\/p>\r\n<p>Which led to other people creating new meta-verses to the song. Like this from animatedamerican:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<div class=\"stanza\">\r\n<p>you tried to read the words as prose<\/p>\r\n<p>but noticed how its scansion goes<\/p>\r\n<p>and now you can\u2019t unhear the tune, so screw ya<\/p>\r\n<p>recall the phrase you love the most<\/p>\r\n<p>then once again reblog this post<\/p>\r\n<p>and tag your fav\u2019rite line of hallelujah<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>For a few more comments along similar lines, see <a href=\"https:\/\/amatalefay.tumblr.com\/post\/165137643462\/ericvilas-shinelikethunder\">amatalefay\u2019s response<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,53,99,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-lyrics","category-music","category-parodies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17998,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17997\/revisions\/17998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}