{"id":240,"date":"2008-08-01T14:24:29","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T21:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/240"},"modified":"2008-08-02T03:32:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T10:32:47","slug":"make-it-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/make-it-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Make it stop!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what the heck happened to trigger this, but for the past day and a half I haven&#8217;t been able to get this song out of my head.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Any suggestions???<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><embed quality=\"high\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" flashvars=\"valid_sample_rate=true&amp;external_url=http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/files\/divine.mp3\" height=\"45\" width=\"190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.odeo.com\/flash\/audio_player_standard_gray.swf\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>However, in my head it not quite as performed in the clip &#8211; what I&#8217;m hearing is some mormon general authority&#8217;s middle-aged daughter perfoming this as a solo at general conference years ago (ET Benson, I think).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0That she was a GA&#8217;s daughter is the only explanation I can think of for why she was given a solo spot. Oh, the warbly swooping up to each note was so very <em class=\"b\">painful<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you heard it and shared my pain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you&#8217;ve heard me imitate\/mock it over the years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you are laughing right now thinking I deserve this.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Well stop it &#8211; because when you heard me imitate her you laughed too.<\/p>\n<p>Please offer new song suggestions for my brain &#8211;<em class=\"b\">\u00c2\u00a0this is cruel and unusual\u00c2\u00a0punishment<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what the heck happened to trigger this, but for the past day and a half I haven&#8217;t been able to get this song out of my head.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Any suggestions??? However, in my head it not quite as performed in the clip &#8211; what I&#8217;m hearing is some mormon general authority&#8217;s middle-aged daughter &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/make-it-stop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Make it stop!!!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-entertainment","category-reminiscing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}