{"id":11825,"date":"2014-05-27T06:37:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T11:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=11825"},"modified":"2018-11-15T08:25:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T13:25:02","slug":"de-de-de-de-de-dink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/de-de-de-de-de-dink\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230; de de de de de, dink &#8230;.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FCx2uGBhvEc\" target=\"_blank\">this discussion<\/a> of the War Powers Resolution difficult to follow. I wondered if the arguments might be easier to understand if they were sung to the melody of &#8220;The Primrose Polka.&#8221;<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-11825-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cuckoo-primrose-16.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cuckoo-primrose-16.mp3\">http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/cuckoo-primrose-16.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Nope.<\/p>\n<p>The lyrics can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/thepunditpress.com\/2014\/05\/05\/college-wins-us-debate-championship-by-repeating-the-n-word-over-and-over-speaking-incomprehensibly\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. (I substituted &#8220;cuckoo clock&#8221; for a <a href=\"http:\/\/classicalvalues.com\/2014\/05\/a-forbidden-but-common-word-that-has-become-far-too-powerful\/\" target=\"_blank\">word<\/a> I prefer not to use.)<\/p>\n<p>Please note that this is not a good example of what Miku English is capable of. I picked a lively tune with many notes so I could get a lot of words in, and exaggerated the &#8220;clearness&#8221; and &#8220;brightness&#8221; of the voices. Fewer, longer notes, individually edited, would have sounded much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this discussion of the War Powers Resolution difficult to follow. I wondered if the arguments might be easier to understand if they were sung to the melody of &#8220;The Primrose Polka.&#8221; Nope. The lyrics can be found here. (I substituted &#8220;cuckoo clock&#8221; for a word I prefer not to use.) Please note that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/de-de-de-de-de-dink\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;&#8230; de de de de de, dink &#8230;.&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-silly-people"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-34J","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11825"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53322,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825\/revisions\/53322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}