{"id":16234,"date":"2012-10-11T06:37:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T11:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=16234"},"modified":"2012-10-11T08:15:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T13:15:49","slug":"the-best-love-song-written-for-a-rat-you-will-hear-all-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=16234","title":{"rendered":"The Best Love Song Written for a Rat You Will Hear All Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of people responded to the last entry in the most recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=16089\">Death is Not an Option<\/a> by saying, &#8220;Willard?  Never heard of it.&#8221;<b>*<\/b>  Yes, <i>Willard<\/i> was a highly popular horror movie in the early 70s, and it even spawned a sequel, <i>Ben<\/i>.  Which included a sentimental song, to Ben, sung by Michael Jackson.  It reached the top of the pop charts, was nominated for an Academy Award, and is counted as Jackson&#8217;s first #1 solo hit.  (And was originally written for Donny Osmond, which makes it extra-weird.)<\/p>\n<p>Here, enjoy 13-year-old Michael Jackson at the Oscars, singing a love song about a murderous rat.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"236\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/T1dAQN5QcZU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/T1dAQN5QcZU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\n*Children!  You are all children who read my blog!!!  And also get off of my lawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of people responded to the last entry in the most recent Death is Not an Option by saying, &#8220;Willard? Never heard of it.&#8221;* Yes, Willard was a highly popular horror movie in the early 70s, and it even spawned a sequel, Ben. Which included a sentimental song, to Ben, sung by Michael Jackson. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16234"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16241,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16234\/revisions\/16241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}