{"id":1307,"date":"2009-06-17T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2009-06-17T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T16:58:00","slug":"who-would-ever-want-to-be-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=1307","title":{"rendered":"who would ever want to be king?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my guilty pleasures is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ace_of_base\">Ace of Base<\/a>.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not even going to try to justify my penchant, defending them on the grounds that they just make smooth, well-crafted, lightweight pop\/dance (which they do) or something like that.&nbsp; For a change of pace, I just like their music, and lately at work I&#8217;ve been listening to their album <em>The Bridge<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I definitely think we, as Americans (and possibly you other Anglophones as well) take it for granted that almost all of the popular songs we listen to are in English.&nbsp; I mean, here&#8217;s a Swedish pop band, and to have any hope of success not just on the international scene, but likely also in their own country, they have to write their *cough* lyrically profound *cough* songs and sing them in a language that&#8217;s not their native tongue.&nbsp; How odd would it be if 95% of the songs we heard on the radio were, say, in Swahili?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I just thought that was worth recording for posterity.&nbsp; It sounded more profound in my head when I was listening to the music.&nbsp; Maybe I&#8217;ve discovered an unpleasant side effect?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my guilty pleasures is Ace of Base.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not even going to try to justify my penchant, defending them on the grounds that they just make smooth, well-crafted, lightweight pop\/dance (which they do) or something like that.&nbsp; For a change of pace, I just like their music, and lately at work I&#8217;ve been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}