{"id":406,"date":"2020-06-14T21:41:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T21:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/?p=406"},"modified":"2020-06-14T21:41:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T21:41:10","slug":"album-7-any-weird-al","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Album 7: Any Weird Al"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dare_to_Be_Stupid\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/5\/5c\/Weird_Al_Yankovic_-_Dare_to_Be_Stupid.jpg\" alt=\"The cover for Dare to Be Stupid features &quot;Weird Al&quot; Yankovic's face against a backdrop of space. Scattered around his head are various items, such as a fish, a toaster, a toothbrush, and a hammer.\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ben challenged me to post 10 albums that have influenced my musical taste \u2013 one a day for 10 days. No explanation required (but you can if you want), no review (but you can if you want, I\u2019m not your boss), just the cover.  If I have to pick one Weird Al, I&#8217;ll go with Dare to Be Stupid.  For a song, let&#8217;s go with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oe5gaCxWOkg\">Albuquerque<\/a> (but there are soo many good ones!)  And if you didn&#8217;t see the NYT article a few months ago: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/09\/magazine\/weird-al-yankovic.html\">The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2020\/04\/11\/magazine\/11mag-weirdal-02\/11mag-weirdal-02-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" alt=\"Yankovic with 232 fans on January 18, 2020.\u00a0\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I love White &amp; Nerdy.  And the classics &#8211; I Love Rocky Road, Yoda, Word Crimes, and the Hamilton Polka!!!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben challenged me to post 10 albums that have influenced my musical taste \u2013 one a day for 10 days. No explanation required (but you can if you want), no review (but you can if you want, I\u2019m not your boss), just the cover. If I have to pick one Weird Al, I&#8217;ll go with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/?p=406\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Album 7: Any Weird Al<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.talus-and-heavner.com\/aproposnothing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}