{"id":13587,"date":"2015-11-29T20:40:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T01:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=13587"},"modified":"2015-11-29T20:40:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T01:40:24","slug":"get-a-ukulele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=13587","title":{"rendered":"Get a ukulele!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I remembered to go get the lyrics to this Ukulele Anthem which was the ending of <strong><em>The Art of Asking<\/em><\/strong> audiobook (there are advantages when a musician does a book and then makes it an audiobook!)<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OZaR_4us6Ec\" target=\"_blank\">Ukulele Anthem<\/a>, by Amanda Palmer<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>See what happens when you muzzle<\/p>\n<p>A person&#8217;s creativity<br \/>\nAnd do not let them sing and scream<br \/>\nAnd nowadays it&#8217;s worse &#8217;cause kids have automatic handguns<br \/>\nIt takes about an hour to teach someone to play the ukulele<br \/>\nAbout the same to teach someone to build a standard pipe bomb<br \/>\nYOU DO THE MATH<\/p>\n<p>So play your favorite cover song, especially if the words are wrong<br \/>\n&#8216;Cause even if your grades are bad, it doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re failing<br \/>\nDo your homework with a fork<br \/>\nAnd eat your fruit loops in the dark<br \/>\nAnd bring your flask of jack to work<br \/>\nAnd play your ukulele<\/p>\n<p>Ukulele, thing of wonder<br \/>\nUkulele, wand of thunder<br \/>\nYou can play the ukulele, too<br \/>\nIn London and down under<br \/>\nPlay joan jett, and play jacques brel<br \/>\nAnd eminem and neutral milk ho-<br \/>\nTell the children<br \/>\nCrush the hatred<br \/>\nPlay your ukulele naked<br \/>\nIf anybody tries to steal your ukulele, let them take it<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukulele, thing of wonder \u2022<br \/>\nUkulele, wand of thunder \u2022<br \/>\nYou can play the ukulele, too \u2022<br \/>\nIn London and down under \u2022  <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=13587\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,5,13,51,159],"tags":[643,645,644],"class_list":["post-13587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-in-the-world","category-badass-ness","category-do-the-work","category-the-creative-process","category-what-im-listening-to-2","tag-amandafpalmer","tag-justdoit","tag-ukulele"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-3x9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13588,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13587\/revisions\/13588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}