{"id":2813,"date":"2012-12-23T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2015-06-22T13:27:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T17:27:11","slug":"my-brain-is-losing-power-twelve-hundred-neurons-every-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/12\/23\/my-brain-is-losing-power-twelve-hundred-neurons-every-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;My brain is losing power \/ Twelve hundred neurons every hour&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mose Allison&#8217;s My Brain is my current favorite song, which I&#8217;ve been hearing regularly on Jazz 24. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=125065807\">an article<\/a> about Allison&#8217;s continuing status as a living jazz legend, even past the age of 83, which is when he wrote My Brain. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uAwfnkO-PhA\">here&#8217;s<\/a> a studio recording. Lyrics are in the top comment by High Northerner. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VCFzj57sQYs\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> a live version. It&#8217;s all the sharper for being sung by a man near the end of his life. If Zombieville had an official song, this would be it: a gallows humor celebration of life.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">This entry was originally posted at <a href = \"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1430971.html\">http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1430971.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I&#8217;d prefer it if you&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1430971.html?mode=reply\">comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mose Allison&#8217;s My Brain is my current favorite song, which I&#8217;ve been hearing regularly on Jazz 24. Here&#8217;s an article about Allison&#8217;s continuing status as a living jazz legend, even past the age of 83, which is when he wrote My Brain. And here&#8217;s a studio recording. Lyrics are in the top comment by High&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/12\/23\/my-brain-is-losing-power-twelve-hundred-neurons-every-hour\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;My brain is losing power \/ Twelve hundred neurons every hour&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[729,653],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-funny","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5062,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/5062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}