{"id":543,"date":"2004-02-09T08:11:25","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T08:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=543"},"modified":"2004-02-09T08:11:25","modified_gmt":"2004-02-09T08:11:25","slug":"wasnt-every-boys-life-like-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/wasnt-every-boys-life-like-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasn&#8217;t every boy&#8217;s life like this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.winkie.org\/oldwords\/000130.html\">Mondo Winkie on viola lessons: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the afternoon sun crept in through the giant windows, I would rockingly transform from a 9-year-old trying to figure out &#8220;Mary Had a Little Lamb&#8221; into Gene Simmons, jumping around the living room jamming on my faux viola as imaginary columns of flame shot up around me and (during &#8220;God of Thunder&#8221;) blood spewed from my mouth. I stomped around like I had demon boots on my feet, cranking on my viola\/guitar as I tried to keep it from getting nicked by my &#8220;Destroyer&#8221; belt buckle. If only Mom had let me get that thing under my tongue cut (I asked) I would be an unstoppable rock god.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking of the viola, an entry from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mit.edu\/~jcb\/jokes\/viola.html\">viola jokes page<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> What&#8217;s the difference between a violin and a viola?<BR><br \/>\n1. The viola burns longer.<BR><br \/>\n2. The viola holds more beer.<BR><br \/>\n3. You can tune the violin.<BR>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mondo Winkie on viola lessons: As the afternoon sun crept in through the giant windows, I would rockingly transform from a 9-year-old trying to figure out &#8220;Mary Had a Little Lamb&#8221; into Gene Simmons, jumping around the living room jamming&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/wasnt-every-boys-life-like-this\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}