{"id":3782,"date":"2006-04-27T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/27\/winnie-the-pooh-and-syphilis-too\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T09:45:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:45:42","slug":"winnie-the-pooh-and-syphilis-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/04\/27\/winnie-the-pooh-and-syphilis-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnie the Pooh and Syphilis Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the way home from school, Prairie and I stopped off at Toys &#8216;R&#8217; Us to pick out a present for my nephew Noah, who we&#8217;ll be seeing this weekend. As we were walking out we passed a coin-operated Winnie the Pooh &#8216;horsey&#8217;-style ride that was playing the Winnie the Pooh theme. Prairie didn&#8217;t hear it at first until I started humming along.<\/p>\n<p>As we were driving home, she suddenly turned to me. &#8220;Damn you! Winnie the Pooh is stuck in my head!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I laughed. &#8220;It&#8217;s not <em>my<\/em> fault&#8230;it was the machine!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t hear the machine. It&#8217;s <em>your fault<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had to share the pain,&#8221; I protested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some things shouldn&#8217;t be shared,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;The Winnie the Pooh theme is one. It&#8217;s a lot like syphilis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp; offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"Get iTunes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id= xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a>Variations on &#8220;I Got Rhythm&#8221; for Piano and Orchestra<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/ stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid= 1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252F MZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252Fadvanced SearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DOrchestre National de l'Opera de Monte Carlo (Edo de Waart)%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Orchestre National de l'Opera de Monte Carlo (Edo de Waart)' on the iTMS\">Orchestre National de l&#8217;Opera de Monte Carlo (Edo de Waart)<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click. linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type= 3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple. com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search. DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DOrchestre National de l'Opera de Monte Carlo (Edo de Waart)%2526 albumTerm=Panorama: George Gershwin%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Panorama: George Gershwin' on the iTMS\">Panorama: George Gershwin<\/a> <\/em> (1971, 8:32).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Some things shouldn&#8217;t be shared,&#8217; she explained. &#8216;The Winnie the Pooh theme is one. It&#8217;s a lot like syphilis.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[6,13,16],"class_list":["post-3782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-humor","tag-life","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}