{"id":494,"date":"2016-07-25T14:25:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T14:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundingstone.net\/blog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2016-07-25T14:25:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T14:25:15","slug":"fruition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundingstone.net\/blog\/fruition\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bender Melon wrote this song during the 2004 election season mostly as a joke.  I point it out every four years because I think it is kind of funny in it&#8217;s caricature of the egotism of presidential candidates. I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;m the only one amused. This year it&#8217;s not so funny.  Little did I know in 2004 that the character in the song would win the Republican nomination for President in 2016.  The only difference this year is that instead of &#8220;homemade&#8221; &#8220;matching uniforms&#8221;, the nominee and his wife wear an elite tailored uniform costing more than the average annual income of a good number of people in this country. The rest is pretty much spot on.  I expect should they win the office this year, the uniforms will be unzipped down the center and intergalactic lizard aliens will emerge announcing the takeover of the planet. <br \/>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2298268924\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/track=86063365\/transparent=true\/\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bendermelon.bandcamp.com\/album\/alienor\">Alienor<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bender Melon wrote this song during the 2004 election season mostly as a joke. I point it out every four years because I think it is kind of funny in it&#8217;s caricature of the egotism of presidential candidates. I&#8217;m pretty sure I&#8217;m the only one amused. This year it&#8217;s not so funny. Little did I &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/soundingstone.net\/blog\/fruition\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-hotburnowgmail-com","4":"post-494","6":"format-standard","7":"category-music","8":"category-music-produced","9":"category-navel-gazing"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s67uTa-fruition","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundingstone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundingstone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundingstone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundingstone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundingstone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/soundingstone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/soundingstone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundingstone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundingstone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundingstone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}