{"id":177945,"date":"2019-04-24T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/24\/my-life-is-a-lie\/"},"modified":"2019-04-24T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T23:18:00","slug":"my-life-is-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/04\/24\/my-life-is-a-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"My Life is a Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/PpoDHyi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/PpoDHyi.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" width=\"280\" \/><\/a>I just read that the death metal band Hatebeak, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/9bgbz3\/twelve-years-later-hatebeak-remains-the-worlds-only-death-metal-band-fronted-by-a-parrot-666?fbclid=IwAR3tAo9QqXGD97sMyPeUxvs26ymop22QQQ4YH8ce5pg_HnwHg8OCPyxAkCQ\">has released its 4th album in 12 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t make my life a lie.<\/p>\n<p>Neither does the fact that the lead singer is, &#8220;Waldo, a 21-year-old African grey parrot.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What makes my life a lie is the fact that they are a, &#8220;Baltimore-based three-man studio project&#8221;, involving drummer Blake Harrison, guitarist Mark Sloan, and the aforementioned Waldo.<\/p>\n<p>I have been living in the greater Baltimore area for 18 years, and I have never heard of Hatebeak.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, here is a a bit of Baltimore performance art that makes John Waters look like Pat Boone, and I was completely unaware.<\/p>\n<p>What is wrong with me?<\/p>\n<p>I could have had these guys play at Natalie&#8217;s or Charlie&#8217;s B&#8217;nei Mitzvah, if I had only known.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/205971843&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read that the death metal band Hatebeak, has released its 4th album in 12 years. That doesn&#8217;t make my life a lie. Neither does the fact that the lead singer is, &#8220;Waldo, a 21-year-old African grey parrot.&#8221; What makes my life a lie is the fact that they are a, &#8220;Baltimore-based three-man studio &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[388,466,478,574,421],"class_list":["post-177945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-maryland","tag-music","tag-pets","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}