{"id":5947,"date":"2009-02-03T08:38:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T15:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/?p=5947"},"modified":"2009-02-03T08:39:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T15:39:58","slug":"the-way-i-could-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=5947","title":{"rendered":"The Way I Could Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Click and drag this image to the post editor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Be-OK-Ingrid-Michaelson\/dp\/B001HDXHOU%3FSubscriptionId%3D1N9AHEAQ2F6SVD97BE02%26tag%3Dghosthouse01-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB001HDXHOU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41MO9cwg6FL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" \/><\/a> I have a song from an alternate universe stuck in my head again.<\/p>\n<p>Ingrid Michaelson&#8217;s song &#8220;The Way I Am&#8221; is very cute they way she sings it.  But the way I hear it is as sung by a late 1950&#8217;s or early 1960&#8217;s doo-wop group.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine this part as she sings it&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cuz I love the way you call me baby<br \/>\nAnd you take me the way I am<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now imagine it&#8217;s being sung by a man with a high voice, with an <em>a cappella<\/em> backup.  Now have it playing on grainy AM radio with nice analogue tubes in the dead of night&#8230; or even playing over a malfunctioning short wave radio set in an isolated outpost.  Radio from an alternate universe.  See how I snuck the sci-fi horror in there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a song from an alternate universe stuck in my head again. Ingrid Michaelson&#8217;s song &#8220;The Way I Am&#8221; is very cute they way she sings it. But the way I hear it is as sung by a late 1950&#8217;s or early 1960&#8217;s doo-wop group. Imagine this part as she sings it&#8230; Cuz I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5949,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions\/5949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}