{"id":3806,"date":"2010-11-02T23:46:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T03:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=3806"},"modified":"2010-11-03T07:19:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T11:19:22","slug":"last-man-standing-euphemistic-fruit-references-in-rock-n-roll-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-euphemistic-fruit-references-in-rock-n-roll-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Euphemistic Fruit References in Rock \u2018n Roll Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" src=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\" data=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/lastmanstanding400x275.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Your challenge today is to cite rock &#8216;n roll songs containing <strong>euphemistic fruit references<\/strong>: fruit, not vegetables, although our highly unscientific judges will allow the blurring of categories regarding tomatoes and melons. (One judge does know this much: technically, almonds are a fruit not a nut.) By &#8220;rock &#8216;n roll songs&#8221; I mean songs released during the rock &#8216;n roll era, so that rules out the excellent and not-naughty (as I would expect most entries will be) &#8220;Strange Fruit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll kick things off with an entry some might quibble over if suggested by anyone else, an unexpected <strong>banana<\/strong> reference in Grand Funk Railroad&#8217;s &#8220;We&#8217;re an American Band&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Four young <em>chiquitas<\/em> in Omaha&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Surely, this will be one of the most exclusive Last Man Standing competitions in the history of Rock Town Hall&#8230;or not!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your challenge today is to cite rock &#8216;n roll songs containing euphemistic fruit references: fruit, not vegetables, although our highly unscientific judges will allow the blurring of categories regarding tomatoes and melons. (One judge does know this much: technically, almonds are a fruit not a nut.) By &#8220;rock &#8216;n roll songs&#8221; I mean songs released <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-euphemistic-fruit-references-in-rock-n-roll-songs\/' 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\/3806"}],"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=3806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}