{"id":103,"date":"2008-01-19T03:29:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T09:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/wordpress\/?p=103"},"modified":"2008-08-22T13:27:04","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T19:27:04","slug":"a-really-silly-blast-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/2008\/01\/19\/a-really-silly-blast-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"A really silly blast from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to work in a customer support group with my cousin.  We would write all kinds of stupid things&#8211;mostly haiku, but sometimes long-winded and completely non-sensical.  Soda was a common subject, specifically Dr Pepper, but on rare occasion we targeted Coke and Pepsi, as evidenced by this fine piece of art:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>a change in seasons of my life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>used to do coke<br \/>\nthen I went broke<br \/>\nmy dealer wanted too much money<br \/>\nas well as my honey<br \/>\nbut my honey was funny<br \/>\ndressed up like a big fluffy bunny<br \/>\nthe new generation<br \/>\nsolved the segregation<br \/>\nworld peace for all<br \/>\na big bright green rubber ball<br \/>\nPepsi is nectar<br \/>\njust ask my friend Hector<br \/>\nhe sleeps with his Pepsi but that&#8217;s too much information for this story so I better stop now before it gets really out of hand<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t have a cow<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t bury yourself in the sand<br \/>\njust drink your nectar<br \/>\nin an alien vector<br \/>\nPepsi Pepsi Pepsi<br \/>\nnothing rhymes with Pepsi<br \/>\nunless maybe you don&#8217;t say Audrey Hepburn you say Hepsi<br \/>\nbut that would sound kinda silly<br \/>\ndrink your Pepsi with Billy<br \/>\nfind a nice filly<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t get caught like Milli Vanilli<br \/>\nmake sure the tape won&#8217;t screw up in the middle of your performance and then you look like a retarded freak<br \/>\ndrink Pepsi all week<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t drink Coke like a geek<br \/>\nthis rhymage is getting weak<br \/>\nso the moral of the story is to drink<br \/>\nlots of Pepsi even in the kitchen sink\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really even like Pepsi, actually, but it&#8217;s nice to see some Paul Simon references in even the silliest of things.  Can you spot them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to work in a customer support group with my cousin. We would write all kinds of stupid things&#8211;mostly haiku, but sometimes long-winded and completely non-sensical. Soda was a common subject, specifically Dr Pepper, but on rare occasion we targeted Coke and Pepsi, as evidenced by this fine piece of art: a change in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grassmonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}