{"id":29150,"date":"2020-07-25T00:06:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T05:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=29150"},"modified":"2020-07-25T03:22:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T08:22:57","slug":"the-mermaid-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=29150","title":{"rendered":"The Mermaid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Shel Silverstein classic as performed by Great Big Sea.<br>A Canadian folk rock band with talent to spare they sang<br>traditional ballads with a modern twist to it.<br>Great Big Sea were quite popular from the mid 90&#8217;s<br>until their breakup in 2013, I remember hearing them on<br>the radio when camping on the Canadian border back<br>in the day.<br>They showed a sense of humor when performing, as <br>noted by the background comments peppered <br>throughout the song, especially towards the end.<br>As with all of Shel&#8217;s tunes this has great imagery&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"The Mermaid (Lyrics) - Great Big Sea\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UDhCgAoggX8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shel Silverstein classic as performed by Great Big Sea.A Canadian folk rock band with talent to spare they sangtraditional ballads with a modern twist to it.Great Big Sea were quite popular from the mid 90&#8217;suntil their breakup in 2013, I remember hearing them onthe radio when camping on the Canadian border backin the day.They [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-29150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29151,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29150\/revisions\/29151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}