{"id":448,"date":"2024-04-08T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mandelcook.com\/?p=448"},"modified":"2024-04-08T17:14:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T17:14:03","slug":"sitting-on-top-of-a-squirrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mandelcook.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/08\/sitting-on-top-of-a-squirrel\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitting on Top of the Squirrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have listened to the Corporate Sellout album, you have probably noticed this song definitely does not fit. However, I had to put it on the album because I love it so much.<\/p>\n<p>A few years back I started a music instrument company called Brock Instruments. Our first product was a ukulele. I was teaching ukulele at our local library, and I really wanted to make one that was good as well as anyone could afford it. While doing that I ended up playing ukulele a lot and started writing songs on the uke. This song was written while I was playing with my kid. It became so catchy that I would play it for all of his friends and at his school every time I was there. I decided one night to record it while goofing off. I even talked my wife in to singing on it with me. While she was recording her part our cat came in. She has a bell on her collar and that is the bell you hear toward to end of the song.<\/p>\n<p>So, while the song doesn&#8217;t fit, it is so much fun to sing along with!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z6aEtCzVEQw?si=TlPByocYbTx7AQph\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have listened to the Corporate Sellout album, you have probably noticed this song definitely does not fit. However, I had to put it on the album because I love it so much. A few years back I started a music instrument company called Brock Instruments. Our first product was a ukulele. I was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandelcook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandelcook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandelcook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandelcook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandelcook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mandelcook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"https:\/\/mandelcook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mandelcook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandelcook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mandelcook.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}