{"id":61092,"date":"2026-07-22T21:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=61092"},"modified":"2026-07-22T21:32:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:32:40","slug":"deteriorata-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=61092","title":{"rendered":"Deteriorata"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A National Lampoon parody of a Max Ehrmann poem from 1927.<br>The original was named Desiderata, it&#8217;s a neat little bit of prose <br>that&#8217;s quite inspirational, I happen to have that on my bathroom<br>mirror for morning inspiration purposes.<br>Norman Rose was the narration, Melissa Manchester sang the<br>words, Christopher Guest wrote the music<br>Natlamp came out with this in 1972 I believe, Radio Dinner was <br>the name of the vinyl album, I have many copies&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"1972 National Lampoon - Deteriorata (Norman Rose, narrator \/ Melissa Manchester, vocal)\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Axyqk5ERKQ?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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A National Lampoon parody of a Max Ehrmann poem from 1927.The original was named Desiderata, it&#8217;s a neat little bit of prose that&#8217;s quite inspirational, I happen to have that on my bathroommirror for morning inspiration purposes.Norman Rose was the narration, Melissa Manchester sang thewords, Christopher Guest wrote the musicNatlamp came out with this in [&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-61092","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\/61092","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=61092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61095,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61092\/revisions\/61095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}