{"id":737,"date":"2012-04-21T14:12:42","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T19:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.joecurry.com\/?p=737"},"modified":"2012-04-21T14:12:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T19:12:42","slug":"mairzy-doats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/mairzy-doats\/","title":{"rendered":"Mairzy Doats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/joecurry\/6953539656\/in\/photostream\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Ivy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5468\/6953539656_84fb3fffd3_z.jpg\" alt=\"Ivy\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 3<\/strong><strong>65.112<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My maternal grandma would sometimes sing Mairzy Doats, a song whose lyrics at first seem meaningless. But if you listen closely and sing them slowly, this 1943 song all makes sense. It begins:<\/p>\n<p><em>Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>A kiddley divey too, wouldn&#8217;t you?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bonus: I even found a clip from The Lawrence Welk Show, a program for which I&#8217;ve seen more episodes than I care to admit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"max-width:600px;max-height:360px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/?wmode=transparent\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 365.112 My maternal grandma would sometimes sing Mairzy Doats, a song whose lyrics at first seem meaningless. But if you listen closely and sing them slowly, this 1943 song all makes sense. It begins: Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey. A kiddley divey too, wouldn&#8217;t you? Bonus: I even found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5wQXH-bT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joecurry.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}