{"id":993,"date":"2016-12-08T09:44:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T14:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/?p=993"},"modified":"2016-12-08T09:44:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T14:44:09","slug":"they-might-be-giants-your-racist-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2016\/12\/08\/they-might-be-giants-your-racist-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"They Might Be Giants &#8211; Your Racist Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"They Might Be Giants - &quot;Your Racist Friend&quot;\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v4_COOh4VXw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lyrics<\/strong><br \/>\nThis is where the party ends<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t stand here listening to you<br \/>\nAnd your racist friend<br \/>\nI know politics bore you<br \/>\nBut I feel like a hypocrite talking to you<br \/>\nAnd your racist friend<\/p>\n<p>It was the loveliest party that I&#8217;ve ever attended<br \/>\nIf anything was broken I&#8217;m sure it could be mended<br \/>\nMy head can&#8217;t tolerate this bobbing and pretending<br \/>\nListen to some bullet-head and the madness that he&#8217;s saying<\/p>\n<p>This is where the party ends<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll just sit here wondering how you<br \/>\nCan stand by your racist friend<br \/>\nI know politics bore you<br \/>\nBut I feel like a hypocrite talking to you<br \/>\nYou and your racist friend<\/p>\n<p>This is where the party ends<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t stand here listening to you<br \/>\nAnd your racist friend<br \/>\nI know politics bore you<br \/>\nBut I feel like a hypocrite talking to you<br \/>\nAnd your racist friend<\/p>\n<p>Out from the kitchen to the bedroom to the hallway<br \/>\nYour friend apologizes, he could see it my way<br \/>\nHe let the contents of the bottle do the thinking<br \/>\nCan&#8217;t shake the devil&#8217;s hand and say you&#8217;re only kidding<\/p>\n<p>This is where the party ends<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t stand here listening to you<br \/>\nAnd your racist friend<br \/>\nI know politics bore you<br \/>\nBut I feel like a hypocrite talking to you<br \/>\nAnd your racist friend<\/p>\n<p>Written by John Flansburgh, John Linnell, John C. Flansburgh, John S. Linnell \u2022 Copyright \u00a9 Warner\/Chappell Music, Inc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyrics This is where the party ends I can&#8217;t stand here listening to you And your racist friend I know politics bore you But I feel like a hypocrite talking to you And your racist friend It was the loveliest party that I&#8217;ve ever attended If anything was broken I&#8217;m sure it could be mended &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/2016\/12\/08\/they-might-be-giants-your-racist-friend\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;They Might Be Giants &#8211; Your Racist Friend&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":994,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}