{"id":298,"date":"2003-09-13T17:23:20","date_gmt":"2003-09-14T00:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/09\/13\/singing-about-the-other-john\/"},"modified":"2003-09-13T17:23:20","modified_gmt":"2003-09-14T00:23:20","slug":"singing-about-the-other-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/09\/13\/singing-about-the-other-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing about the other John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to the happiest place on Earth                 &#8212; San Francisco&#8217;s favorite karaoke bar, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themint.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">The                 Mint<\/a>. With<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/music\/3103164.stm\" target=\"_blank\"> Johnny                 Cash&#8217;s recent death<\/a>, many singers selected songs from his                 extensive catalogue, but no one offered a tribute to the other                 death that day, of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/entertainment\/tv_and_radio\/3102900.stm\" target=\"_blank\">John                 Ritter<\/a>. So I sang the theme from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0075596\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Three&#8217;s                 Company&#8221;<\/a>, although the instance I&#8217;ll always remember                 John Ritter for is the glow-in-the-dark condom scene from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0098343\/\" target=\"_blank\">Skin                 Deep<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;America                         is &#8230; like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can                         bite and hurt you, aggressive. &#8220;<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&amp;u=\/nm\/20030905\/people_nm\/people_depp_dc\" target=\"_blank\">Johnny                             Depp<\/a>, on the United States war with Iraq, later                             disavowing the quote from having anti-American sentiment<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/09\/13\/singing-about-the-other-john\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to the happiest place on Earth &#8212; San Francisco&#8217;s favorite karaoke bar, The Mint. With Johnny Cash&#8217;s recent death, many singers selected songs from his extensive catalogue, but no one offered a tribute to the other death that day, of John Ritter. So I sang the theme from &#8220;Three&#8217;s Company&#8221;, although &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/09\/13\/singing-about-the-other-john\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Singing about the other John&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2003\/09\/13\/singing-about-the-other-john\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-karaoke","category-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}