{"id":23960,"date":"2022-01-05T09:07:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T15:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23960"},"modified":"2022-01-05T09:17:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T15:17:09","slug":"random-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=23960","title":{"rendered":"Random thoughts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it is time that we admit &#8220;Imagine&#8221; is a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>Not just a bad song, which it is, but we should admit it is just a bad idea in general and toss it on the dustheap of history. No more airplay, no more covers, no acknowledgment that this song even exists.<\/p>\n<p>I have no strong opinion about Lennon&#8217;s other songs. But I have left instructions in my will telling my pallbearers to open carry at my funeral, and that they should use any degree of force necessary to stop &#8220;Imagine&#8221; from being played.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/01\/04\/gal-gadot-admits-celeb-filled-imagine-video-was-in-poor-taste\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Today&#8217;s example of why I feel this way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I happened to note this the other night, and I&#8217;ve seen other people point it out since then. But for the record: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Soylent_Green\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2022 is the year of &#8220;Soylent Green&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3eYcQLW\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Make Room! Make Room!<\/a><\/strong> (affiliate link) was set in August of 1999, for comparison&#8217;s sake.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it is time that we admit &#8220;Imagine&#8221; is a bad idea. Not just a bad song, which it is, but we should admit it is just a bad idea in general and toss it on the dustheap of history. No more airplay, no more covers, no acknowledgment that this song even exists. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,31,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-movies","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23960"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23965,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23960\/revisions\/23965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}