{"id":897,"date":"2008-06-09T23:18:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T23:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=897"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:09:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:09:28","slug":"patheticness_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/06\/patheticness_of.html","title":{"rendered":"Patheticness of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This really pretty, beautifully melodic, lovely song off Joe Purdy&#8217;s latest album is TOTALLY MAKING ME CRY. And the worst part is, it&#8217;s called &#8220;Ode to Sad Clown.&#8221; COME ON NOW PEOPLE. It is an ode to a sad clown and the lyrics are totally making me cry. Can you get more pathetic and stereotypic than that? I think I better go to bed.<\/p>\n<p>(Nonetheless, I assure you it is a good song. Regardless of the pathetic person listening to it.)<\/p>\n<p><em>I used to hear the children play<br \/>\nused to hear the birds sing<br \/>\none day they just stopped<br \/>\nand I don&#8217;t hear them anymore&#8230;<br \/>\nI got caught in this whistling wind<br \/>\ndoin my best to regret these sins<br \/>\nLord would you forgive me<br \/>\nif you know I&#8217;m gonna do it again<br \/>\nit&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m not sorry Lord,<br \/>\nit&#8217;s just that I&#8217;m not strong<br \/>\nOh &#8217;cause when that woman looks at me<br \/>\nI cant remember right from wrong&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This really pretty, beautifully melodic, lovely song off Joe Purdy&#8217;s latest album is TOTALLY MAKING ME CRY. And the worst part is, it&#8217;s called &#8220;Ode to Sad Clown.&#8221; COME ON NOW PEOPLE. It is an ode to a sad clown &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/06\/patheticness_of.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":[18,6,12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-_of_the_xxx","category-listenin","category-lyrics","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","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=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3843,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}