{"id":2879,"date":"2009-03-26T07:14:02","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T11:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2879"},"modified":"2009-03-24T19:49:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T23:49:50","slug":"blue-sunny-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2879","title":{"rendered":"Blue Sunny Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/coultonvamp-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Sunny Day\" title=\"Blue Sunny Day\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Jonathan Coulton, whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathancoulton.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Re:_Your_Brains\">Re: Your Brains<\/a> I listen to on repeat more than I should probably admit to, has just released a new song.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathancoulton.com\/2009\/03\/16\/new-song-blue-sunny-day\/\">Blue Sunny Day<\/a> is a cheerful, bouncy tune about a suicidal vampire.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Though once I had decided to use the phrase \u201cblue sunny day,\u201d it was hard not to notice that the word \u201cblue\u201d can have another meaning. From there it\u2019s only a quick jump to vampire suicide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jonathan Coulton is my kind of guy.*<\/p>\n<p>Len of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterbymail.com\/\">Monster by Mail<\/a> created this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jawboneradio\/3363939452\/in\/photostream\/\">drawing<\/a> based on the song, which I desperately want on a T-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, should you be in need of a little pick-me-up, it&#8217;s hard to go wrong with angsty, desperate lyrics set to a perky little tune.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\n*As someone pointed out on his site, by using the themes of both suicide and vampires in this song, he has become the first person ever to successfully manage a jaunty Jeff Lynne-styled goth tune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan Coulton, whose Re: Your Brains I listen to on repeat more than I should probably admit to, has just released a new song. Blue Sunny Day is a cheerful, bouncy tune about a suicidal vampire. Though once I had decided to use the phrase \u201cblue sunny day,\u201d it was hard not to notice that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-peculiar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2879"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2893,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2879\/revisions\/2893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}