{"id":22169,"date":"2014-12-15T11:58:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T16:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22169"},"modified":"2014-12-15T12:02:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T17:02:20","slug":"ignorance-can-be-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/ignorance-can-be-bliss\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignorance Can Be Bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What if a song you love in a foreign language you don’t understand at all has terrible lyrics? The other day\u00a0I was listening to\u00a0“Kungo Sogoni,” by a woman named N\u00e2 Hawa Doumbia<\/strong>. I forget what country she’s from, but I’m pretty sure it’s a country where I wouldn’t be able to\u00a0make out a word\u00a0anyone’s saying.\u00a0I occurred to me: I hope the song\u00a0doesn’t contain a deal-breaking couplet, like “My love don’t give me presents\/I know that she’s no peasant.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What if a song you love in a foreign language you don’t understand at all has terrible lyrics? The other day\u00a0I was listening to\u00a0“Kungo Sogoni,” by a woman named N\u00e2 Hawa Doumbia. I forget what country she’s from, but I’m pretty sure it’s a country where I wouldn’t be able to\u00a0make out a word\u00a0anyone’s saying.\u00a0I […]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22169"}],"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=22169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}