{"id":84513,"date":"2012-03-16T02:22:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T06:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/84513\/amen-omen\/"},"modified":"2012-03-16T02:22:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T06:22:55","slug":"amen-omen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/84513\/amen-omen\/","title":{"rendered":"Amen Omen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">I\u2019ve covered more songs on uke than I can remember.\u00a0 What inspires me to cover each song can have as much to do with the merits of the song as it does with any of many other random factors.\u00a0\u00a0 The time of year.\u00a0 What other people are talking about.\u00a0 Or, is in\u00a0 today\u2019s case, something on TV.\u00a0 You have probably seen this TV commercial\u2026<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n<object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">There is something viscerally nice about this commercial.\u00a0 I\u2019ll admit that in it\u2019s everyday examples of one good thing inspiring another that it does a great job of relating to circumstances most of us face all the time.\u00a0 That said, the commercial begins and ends with the same scene: someone holding a door open for a visually impaired person.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\"><em>&lt;Begin sarcasm&gt;<\/em><br \/>\nOh wow. What\u00a0 an AMAZING demonstration of altruism!\u00a0 How poignant and inspiring the act of holding a door open for the blind is.\u00a0 Yeah. Right.\u00a0 Should the next commercial celebrate people NOT kicking puppies?\u00a0\u00a0 Idea for sketch comedy: parody this commercial by showing a door slamming into a visually impaired person.\u00a0 People doing the WRONG thing.<br \/>\n<em>&lt;End Sarcasm&gt;<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\">Despite my issues with the heart-string-tugging visuals of this commercial, the audio is amazing.\u00a0 When I heard the accompanying song, I had to find out who wrote it.\u00a0 Sure enough, once again, one of the very best songwriters of this generation, Mr. Ben Harper.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my cover. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\" size=\"4\" color=\"#000000\"><object><\/object><br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve covered more songs on uke than I can remember.\u00a0 What inspires me to cover each song can have as much to do with the merits of the song as it does with any of many other random factors.\u00a0\u00a0 The time of year.\u00a0 What other people are talking about.\u00a0 Or, is in\u00a0 today\u2019s case, something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,23,8],"tags":[4921,4920,4423,81,4448,106],"class_list":["post-84513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-music","tag-amen-omen","tag-ben-harper","tag-folk","tag-joko","tag-song","tag-ukulele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}