{"id":678,"date":"2002-09-11T20:11:54","date_gmt":"2002-09-12T04:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/11\/oingo-boingo\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T13:48:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T21:48:42","slug":"oingo-boingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/11\/oingo-boingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Oingo Boingo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15885,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.boingo.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15886,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B000002OIH\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B000002OIH\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7113,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/ipod&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20170724030711\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/ipod\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 19:11:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 13:56:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 13:56:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15887,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com\\\/Name?Elfman,+Danny&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/us.imdb.com\\\/Name?Elfman,%20Danny&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;pending&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Y&#8217;know, I wish I had an excuse for not discovering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingo.org\/\" title=\"Dan's Boingo Page\">Oingo Boingo<\/a> <em>years<\/em> ago&#8230;but I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>However, somewhere along the line I ended up with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000002OIH\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Amazon: Best O' Boingo\">Best O&#8217; Boingo<\/a> CD. I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;d ever even listened to it before, but ever since I got my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipod\/\" title=\"Apple: iPod\">iPod<\/a> whenever an Oingo Boingo track shows up in the random playlist I use, I end up thinking it&#8217;s <em>really<\/em> cool, checking to see who it is, and kicking myself for never having gotten into this group before. I really should have &#8212; I&#8217;ve liked their song &#8216;Dead Man&#8217;s Party&#8217; for years, and have thought for a while now that <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/Name?Elfman,+Danny\" title=\"IMDB: Danny Elfman\">Danny Elfman<\/a> creates some of the best movie scores I&#8217;ve heard, but I still didn&#8217;t ever bother investigating them.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well. Better late than never!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Y&#8217;know, I wish I had an excuse for not discovering Oingo Boingo years ago&#8230;but I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2035],"tags":[80,2225],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-music","tag-oingo-boingo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","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=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}