{"id":249,"date":"2007-03-19T17:25:38","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T22:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=249"},"modified":"2007-03-19T17:27:26","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T22:27:26","slug":"lyric-of-the-week-father-and-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Lyric of the Week &#8211; Father and Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Simon has done some really cool songs over the years.  One of his more recent is a nice little tune called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewAlbum?playlistId=151626236&#038;s=143441&#038;i=151626233\">Father and Daughter<\/a>&#8220;.  It talks about the relationship between a father and daughter.  I can&#8217;t relate to the words directly, as I&#8217;m not a parent, but I if I were a dad, I would want my relationship with my daughter to be like this.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you leap awake in the middle of a bad dream<br \/>\nAnd for a fraction of a second you can&#8217;t remember where you are<br \/>\nJust open your window and follow your memory upstream<br \/>\nTo the meadow in the mountain where we counted every falling star<br \/>\nI believe the light that shines on you will shine on you forever<br \/>\nAnd though I can&#8217;t guarantee there&#8217;s nothing scary hiding under your bed<br \/>\nI&#8217;m gonna stand guard like a postcard of a golden retriever<br \/>\nAnd never leave til I leave you with a sweet dream in your head<br \/>\nI&#8217;m gonna watch you shine<br \/>\nGonna watch you grow<br \/>\nGonna paint a sign<br \/>\nSo you&#8217;ll always know<br \/>\nAs long as one and one is two<br \/>\nThere could never be a father who loved his daughter more than I love you<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is only one thing I think would be different for me.  It wouldn&#8217;t be a postcard of a golden retriever, it would be, of course, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/gallery\/Libby\">Labrador Retriever.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Pete<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Simon has done some really cool songs over the years. One of his more recent is a nice little tune called &#8220;Father and Daughter&#8220;. It talks about the relationship between a father and daughter. I can&#8217;t relate to the words directly, as I&#8217;m not a parent, but I if I were a dad, I [&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-249","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\/249","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=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.minnesotageek.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}