{"id":3427,"date":"2014-02-17T12:15:03","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T17:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=3427"},"modified":"2014-02-17T12:15:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T17:15:26","slug":"movie-monday-an-introduction-to-ray-charles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=3427","title":{"rendered":"movie monday:  an introduction to ray charles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>one morning last week as we piled into the car, i said, &#8216;let&#8217;s hit the road, jack!&#8217; and then (of course) i had to explain why i&#8217;d called the happy little dude &#8220;jack.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 he asked about the song again that evening when we got home, so i googled it and found this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I\">youtube clip of ray charles singing the song<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 we listened to the whole thing twice, then watched a few of the cover versions and by the end of all that, he could. not. stop. singing. it.\u00c2\u00a0 didn&#8217;t help that he sort of gets stuck in an infinity loop and can&#8217;t find his way out.\u00c2\u00a0 we thought you might enjoy his rendition:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/86680501\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/86680501\">Hit the Road<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user3735856\">carissaabc<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>oh, and by the way, he had the hardest time saying &#8220;ray charles&#8221; for some reason and kept asking me about &#8220;rachel.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>one morning last week as we piled into the car, i said, &#8216;let&#8217;s hit the road, jack!&#8217; and then (of course) i had to explain why i&#8217;d called the happy little dude &#8220;jack.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 he asked about the song again that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=3427\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3428,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3427\/revisions\/3428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}