{"id":3434,"date":"2017-02-28T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocc.org\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2017-02-28T14:04:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T21:04:12","slug":"song-of-the-day-loretta-lynn-conway-twitty-youre-the-reason-our-kids-are-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/2017\/02\/28\/song-of-the-day-loretta-lynn-conway-twitty-youre-the-reason-our-kids-are-ugly\/","title":{"rendered":"SONG OF THE DAY: Loretta Lynn &amp; Conway Twitty &#8211; &#8220;You&#8217;re The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a good chunk of my life as a music consumer, I&#8217;ve described my taste as &#8220;anything but country.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure where this antagonistic view comes from. Maybe it&#8217;s because I grew up in a region where country music dominates the airwaves. Maybe it&#8217;s my general aversion to corn. Maybe I&#8217;ve just pigeonholed myself as an urban elitist liberal and am the reason Hillary lost the election. Who knows.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is to say that I&#8217;ve been making an effort to diversify my music library, and venturing into the world of country has been a major part of my journey. Along the way I came across the work of Loretta Lynn. She&#8217;s got some pipes, and her tunes are catchy enough that I&#8217;ve started humming honky tonk under my breath. &#8220;You&#8217;re The Reason Our Kids Are Ugly&#8221; has been a repeat offender in this regard. Anyone who&#8217;s got a bone to pick could get some satisfaction from singing the chorus out loud.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"You&#039;re the Reason Our Kids are Ugly - Lorretta Lynn &amp; Conway Twitty\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iFq6eZBS1iM?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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a good chunk of my life as a music consumer, I&#8217;ve described my taste as &#8220;anything but country.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure where this antagonistic view comes from. Maybe it&#8217;s because I grew up in a region where country music dominates the airwaves. Maybe it&#8217;s my general aversion to corn. Maybe I&#8217;ve just pigeonholed myself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":3437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-of-the","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7fJU-To","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}