{"id":212,"date":"2005-10-12T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=212"},"modified":"2010-01-03T01:43:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T01:43:38","slug":"you-will-hate-the-cheese-and-pickle-cousin-norman-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/10\/you-will-hate-the-cheese-and-pickle-cousin-norman-redux.html","title":{"rendered":"You will hate the cheese and pickle: Cousin Norman redux"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wfmu.org\/onthedownload.php\/0509\">WFMU<\/a>, hosts of much goodness on the redoubtable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/\">UbuWeb<\/a>, have an MP3 of the original version of the classic bad song &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogfiles.wfmu.org\/BL\/0509\/Steve_Bent_-_Going_To_Spain.mp3\">I&#8217;m Going to Spain<\/a>&#8221; by the enigmatic Steve Bent, for your downloading enjoyment. A song I&#8217;d heard about as a wee tot on the grievously-misnamed <a href=\"http:\/\/nostudium.blogspot.com\/2004_02_01_nostudium_archive.html\">World&#8217;s Worst Records<\/a> compilation LP, but not actually heard until The Fall recorded their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visi.com\/fall\/discog\/albums.html#is\">wistful cover version<\/a>: fine in itself, but nothing can match the queasy charm of the original.<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">All I can find out about Bent is that he was a contestant on <em>New Faces<\/em> in Britain in 1974.  Assertions on some websites that he is one and the same as the British actor Stephen Bent appear to be fanciful.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WFMU, hosts of much goodness on the redoubtable UbuWeb, have an MP3 of the original version of the classic bad song &#8220;I&#8217;m Going to Spain&#8221; by the enigmatic Steve Bent, for your downloading enjoyment. A song I&#8217;d heard about as a wee tot on the grievously-misnamed World&#8217;s Worst Records compilation LP, but not actually heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}