{"id":17121,"date":"2013-01-10T09:26:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T14:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17121"},"modified":"2013-01-10T16:47:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T21:47:52","slug":"last-man-standingnoahs-rockin-ark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standingnoahs-rockin-ark\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Noah&#8217;s Rockin&#8217; Ark"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SEvLtTxakrQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>My younger son has gotten into <strong>The Fiery Furnaces<\/strong>. Last night, as we listened to &#8220;Tropical-Iceland&#8221; for the third time in a row it occurred to me that there probably aren&#8217;t too many songs that reference <strong>puffins<\/strong>. That got me thinking whether we could put together a special kind of <em>Last Man Standing: Noah&#8217;s Rockin&#8217; Ark<\/em>. Here&#8217;s the deal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can we cite pairs of animals referenced in 2 different songs?<\/li>\n<li>No pairs of animals may be repeated; once a pair of animals has been loaded that animal is accounted for.<\/li>\n<li>If you know of 3 songs referencing a certain animal\u2014or 300\u2014we don&#8217;t care. Just list the 1 animal referenced in 2 songs.<\/li>\n<li>To conserve RTH Rock Police resources, I will allow us to cite up to 3 different animals from the same song.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For instance, Noah&#8217;s Rockin&#8217; Ark includes\u00a0<strong>ponies<\/strong>: the ponies from both The Fiery Furnaces&#8217; &#8220;Tropical-Iceland&#8221; and <strong>The Beatles<\/strong>&#8216; &#8220;I Dig a Pony.&#8221; Ponies are loaded on Noah&#8217;s Rockin&#8217; Ark. Ponies are off the board. It&#8217;s time we move onto to a new pair of animals, perhaps puffins.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Last Man Standing: Animal Songs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-or-woman-standing-animal-songs\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s an earlier\u00a0<em>Last Man Standing<\/em><\/a>\u00a0that will get you half the way there.<\/p>\n<p>Entries for this <em>Last Man Standing<\/em> will close at <strong>7:16 am EST on Monday, January 14<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My younger son has gotten into The Fiery Furnaces. Last night, as we listened to &#8220;Tropical-Iceland&#8221; for the third time in a row it occurred to me that there probably aren&#8217;t too many songs that reference puffins. That got me thinking whether we could put together a special kind of Last Man Standing: Noah&#8217;s Rockin&#8217; <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standingnoahs-rockin-ark\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}