{"id":2595,"date":"2010-05-14T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2011-04-24T22:47:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T02:47:16","slug":"your-mom-the-singer-songwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=2595","title":{"rendered":"Your Mom, the Singer-Songwriter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Marshall,<\/p>\n<p>You seem to like the sound of my voice. When you were very young,\u00a0 I tried to sing baby songs to you and found that I didn&#8217;t know all the words. So I started making up my own songs. Then I couldn&#8217;t forget the words, you see, because the lyrics were mine (and subject to change).<\/p>\n<p>First, of course, was the &#8220;<a title=\"Manic Monday\" href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=1046\" target=\"_self\">Pumpkin Song<\/a>.&#8221; Soon after that came &#8220;Clean Bum Bum,&#8221; which had rather limited lyrics (there were a lot of &#8220;bum bums&#8221; in it). I probably reached the pinnacle of my songwriting career with &#8220;Dancing Diaper Wipe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s a dancing diaper wipe, a dancing diaper wipe.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It&#8217;s dancing just for you.<\/em><br \/>\n(Repeat two time<em>s)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It flutters. It floats. It flips. It flies.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It&#8217;s dancing right before your eyes.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It flutters. It floats. It flips. It flows.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Now it&#8217;s right before your toes.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It flutters. It floats. It flips. It flees.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Now it&#8217;s right before you knees.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It flutters. It floats. It flips. It flies.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Now it&#8217;s back before your eyes.<\/em><br \/>\n<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It&#8217;s a dancing diaper wipe, a dancing diaper wipe.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>It&#8217;s dancing. It&#8217;s dancing. It&#8217;s dancing just for you!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But let us not forget &#8220;Who&#8217;s the Cutest Baby?,&#8221; which is probably the only one I still sing for you now.<\/p>\n<p><em>Who&#8217;s the cutest baby in the whole wide world?<br \/>\nMarshall is!<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Who&#8217;s the cutest baby in the universe?<br \/>\nMarshall is!<br \/>\nWho&#8217;s the cutest baby of all of time?<br \/>\nMarshall is!<br \/>\nHe&#8217;s the cutest baby, the cutest baby.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You smile when I sing it to you, and it&#8217;s that smile that makes you the cutest baby in the whole wide world.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe when you&#8217;re older you will write songs for me. Just not about diaper wipes, ok?<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Mom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Marshall, You seem to like the sound of my voice. When you were very young,\u00a0 I tried to sing baby songs to you and found that I didn&#8217;t know all the words. So I started making up my own &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=2595\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,11,2],"tags":[520,293,251],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2595"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3840,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595\/revisions\/3840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}