{"id":110,"date":"2015-07-18T12:38:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T19:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomswritings.lewczyk.net\/?p=110"},"modified":"2021-09-27T10:38:11","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T17:38:11","slug":"almost-famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=110","title":{"rendered":"Almost Famous &#8211; 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting &#8212; as I&#8217;m flipping through my old writings, I occasionally need to google what I&#8217;m looking at to ensure it is original. It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m that good or anything, it&#8217;s just that I have a tendency to occasionally write down other poems or song lyrics that click with me, so I sometimes have other people&#8217;s work mixed in with my own. Plus I&#8217;ve written so much stuff so long ago that I don&#8217;t always remember having written it. One such example is The Friggin Falcon (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hard-facts.net\/cgi-bin\/forum\/fxm.cgi?act=ST;f=23;t=2055;st=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>), which I love as a poem, but seems to lack as a song in every version that I&#8217;ve heard. I wish wish wish that I had written it. To me, it sounds like something that I might\u00a0have.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00006d;\"><em>ADDENDUM: I reread posted info on The Friggin Falcon, and discovered that: (1) it was written by the science fiction author Theodore Cogswell, and (2)\u00a0it was written as a poem and not a song. This last fact makes me feel better when I&#8217;m critical of musical versions that I&#8217;ve heard.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s interesting &#8212; as I&#8217;m flipping through my old writings, I occasionally need to google what I&#8217;m looking at to ensure it is original. It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m that good or anything, it&#8217;s just that I have a tendency to occasionally write down other poems or song lyrics that click with me, so I sometimes &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/?p=110\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Almost Famous &#8211; 1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1851,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/1851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lewczyk.net\/tomswritings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}