{"id":2342,"date":"2014-11-23T22:53:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T03:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2014-11-23T23:48:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T04:48:38","slug":"music-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2342","title":{"rendered":"Hanging around."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sunday. \u00a0Sunday. Sunday. \u00a0It is a gray rainy day here in this part of the planet. \u00a0Here in Ohiolands. \u00a0It will be mostly gray, and dead here\u2026 until late March or April. \u00a0The blahs can get to a person\u2026 in one isn\u2019t careful.<\/p>\n

There are different things that people call upon to stave off any kind of doldrum. \u00a0Some people summons chocolate, or a glass of wine. \u00a0Others run a mile, or twelve. \u00a0There are people who read, or paint, or sew, watch TV.<\/p>\n

One of the things that works for me is\u2026\u00a0Music. \u00a0It does a body good.<\/p>\n

Right now I am listening to good ol\u2019 Pandora Radio. \u00a0\u201cIn The Future\u201d by David Byrne is playing. \u00a0It is from his album called The Knee Plays. \u00a0Man I love this guy\u2019s music. \u00a0Way back when The Talking Heads first started chattering. \u00a0That was so long ago in 1977.<\/p>\n

There is\u00a0a pretty wide range of music that I love to hear. \u00a0Better yet, that I love to listen to. \u00a0There is a big difference.<\/p>\n

Some tunes just pass over us. \u00a0And we\u00a0hear them. \u00a0They may cause us to tap a toe, or do a little jiggy-wiggy dance while chopping onions in the kitchen. \u00a0 They are good melodies. \u00a0I have an entire truckload of those swarming around in my head.<\/p>\n

Of course, there are some that we\u00a0don\u2019t like at all. \u00a0I think perhaps men and women even favor certain types of music which differ. \u00a0I would guess that \u00a0more men like Hard-Metal-Acid-Head-Banger-Rock …. than do women. \u00a0And, I bet more women are fans of\u2026. say\u2026 The Carpenters…\u00a0then are men.<\/p>\n

However, once again, I digress. \u00a0Back to the main drift of this\u2026.<\/p>\n

There are the songs that cause us\u00a0to stop in our tracks. \u00a0They might may us\u00a0smile, or they could elicit tears. \u00a0Maybe they motivate us. \u00a0But they are the special songs. \u00a0The ones that really flip the old switch in your brain\u2026 and in your heart.<\/p>\n

These are the ones that really make us feel something (happy or sad, good or bad). \u00a0As soon as that very first familiar note hits our ears. \u00a0 I love it when a song has this effect on me. \u00a0It is like Saturday Morning Waffles, teeming with butter and powdered sugar. \u00a0 So good\u2026 in every way.<\/p>\n

The songs that make your feel like you just found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow\u2026 or won the gold medal in hockey\u2026 or realized your goldfish wasn\u2019t really dead. \u00a0It was just sleeping. \u00a0Whatever the case. \u00a0 Those songs make you feel crazy-go-nuts golden- good.<\/p>\n

Yet\u2026. on\u00a0a gray rainy day like today.. one has no choice but to call upon music. \u00a0One needs to crank up the radio\u2026 and let the likes of Carpenters put it out there…<\/p>\n

\u201cHanging around. \u00a0Nothing\u00a0to do but frown
\nRainy days and Mondays always get me down\u2026.<\/p>\n

And I thought Sunday Rainy Days were a challenge. \u00a0Ahhhh\u2026 there is always tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Where words fail, music speaks.\u00a0 \u2014\u00a0 Hans Christian Andersen<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday. \u00a0Sunday. Sunday. \u00a0It is a gray rainy day here in this part of the planet. \u00a0Here in Ohiolands. \u00a0It will be mostly gray, and dead here\u2026 until late March or April. \u00a0The blahs can get to a person\u2026 in one isn\u2019t careful. There are different things that people call upon to stave off any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2349,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions\/2349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}