{"id":188,"date":"2006-08-04T22:53:57","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T03:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=188"},"modified":"2006-08-04T23:11:57","modified_gmt":"2006-08-05T04:11:57","slug":"lyric-of-the-week-love-song-for-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Lyric of the Week &#8211; Love Song For No One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Mayer has written some really interesting music and some really interesting lyrics.  This song&#8217;s lyrics struck me particularly, since they reminded me so much of my Freshamn and Sophomore years in high school.  As you may have guessed, I was one of those awkward, nerdy kids who had a hard time figuring out what to say\/do in front of girls.  As a result, I spent many a lonely Friday night feeling sorry for myself while sitting at home, or hanging with my other guy friends, who were just as nerdy and awkward as I was.  This song, if it would have been out back then, would have been our anthem.<\/p>\n<p><em>Staying home alone on a Friday<br \/>\nFlat on the floor looking back<br \/>\nOn old love<br \/>\nOr lack thereof<br \/>\nAfter all the crushes are faded<br \/>\nAnd all my wishful thinking was wrong<br \/>\nI&#8217;m jaded<br \/>\nI hate it<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m tired of being alone<br \/>\nSo hurry up and get here<br \/>\nSo tired of being alone<br \/>\nSo hurry up and get here<br \/>\nGet here<\/em><\/p>\n<p>See what I mean?  Download a legal copy of the song right <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=157526556&#038;s=143441&#038;i=157526604\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Pete<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mayer has written some really interesting music and some really interesting lyrics. This song&#8217;s lyrics struck me particularly, since they reminded me so much of my Freshamn and Sophomore years in high school. As you may have guessed, I was one of those awkward, nerdy kids who had a hard time figuring out what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyric-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}