{"id":73,"date":"2006-04-27T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T22:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/culture\/music\/rocket_man_meme.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"rocket_man_meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2006\/04\/27\/rocket_man_meme","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Man Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m almost thirty years old and only just now saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devilducky.com\/media\/21099\/\">William Shatner&#8217;s rendition of Rocket Man<\/a> (discovered via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rocket_Man_(song)\">Wikipedia<\/a>, indirectly via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thislife.org\/pages\/descriptions\/02\/223.html\">this excellent episode of This American Life<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thislife.org\/ftp-root\/mp3\/rocketman.mp3\">the &#8220;one-day band&#8217;s&#8221; cover of Rocketman<\/a>). If you&#8217;re almost thirty and you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, do it now! In fact, even if you&#8217;re over thirty, see it. (If you&#8217;re under thirty, you probably aren&#8217;t quite ready.) <\/p>\n<p> Once you are up to date on this valuable artifact of cultural history, you can experience the postmodern repackaging as performed by <a href=\"http:\/\/gorillamask.net\/rmstew.shtml\">Stewie from the Family Guy<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> Addendum: I am also surprised to learn just now that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/stage\/theater\/rocket-man\/1593\/\">Ray Bradbury (whose work inspired Rocket Man) has never driven a car or used a computer<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;m almost thirty years old and only just now saw William Shatner&#8217;s rendition of Rocket Man (discovered via Wikipedia, indirectly via this excellent episode of This American Life and the &#8220;one-day band&#8217;s&#8221; cover of Rocketman). If you&#8217;re almost thirty and you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, do it now! In fact, even if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}