{"id":556,"date":"2007-08-30T13:55:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T13:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=556"},"modified":"2015-07-12T09:54:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T14:54:40","slug":"cover_of_the_da-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/08\/cover_of_the_da-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Cover of the Day (and Possibly the Best Cover Ever)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rhymefest <\/strong>and <strong>O.D.B. <\/strong>doing &#8220;<strong>Build Me Up, Buttercup<\/strong>.&#8221;  With, of course, some rappin&#8217; thrown in between choruses (some in the form of &#8220;letters&#8221; from Rhymefest to O.D.B.).  I&#8217;m just sittin here giggling and giggling as I listen.  This ranks right up there with <strong>Jonathan Coulton&#8217;s &#8220;Baby Got Back&#8221;<\/strong> cover.<\/p>\n<p>(It&#8217;s on Rhymefest&#8217;s album &#8220;Blue Collar&#8221; purchased immediately after seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/08\/lollapalooza_da_1.html\">his superfun set at Lollapalooza<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhymefest and O.D.B. doing &#8220;Build Me Up, Buttercup.&#8221; With, of course, some rappin&#8217; thrown in between choruses (some in the form of &#8220;letters&#8221; from Rhymefest to O.D.B.). I&#8217;m just sittin here giggling and giggling as I listen. This ranks right &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/08\/cover_of_the_da-2.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-_of_the_xxx","category-listenin","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3111,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/3111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}