{"id":183208,"date":"2015-01-25T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/25\/i-think-im-going-to-be-sick\/"},"modified":"2015-01-25T23:06:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T04:06:00","slug":"i-think-im-going-to-be-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/25\/i-think-im-going-to-be-sick\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think I&#8217;m Going to be Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching TV, and an ad for Jackson Hewett comes on, talking about all their offices, including about a thousand in Wal-Marts.<\/p>\n<p>The background music is, <i>I&#8217;ve Been Working on the Railroad<\/i>, and it&#8217;s sung by <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Pete Seeger<\/span><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, Pete Seeger, who would never do this, and must be spinning on his grave over this.<\/p>\n<p>I confirmed this via a Google search, and it appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.stevehoffman.tv\/threads\/pete-seeger-in-a-commercial.406920\/\">his family licensed this use<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not some sort of bullsh%$ record label stealing for the artist bullsh%$.<\/p>\n<p>Stop the world.&nbsp; I want to get off.<\/p>\n<p>I am so angry that I could chew iron and spit nails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m watching TV, and an ad for Jackson Hewett comes on, talking about all their offices, including about a thousand in Wal-Marts. The background music is, I&#8217;ve Been Working on the Railroad, and it&#8217;s sung by Pete Seeger. Seriously, Pete Seeger, who would never do this, and must be spinning on his grave over this. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1125,1005,969,1137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-business","category-evil","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183208"}],"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=183208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}