{"id":491,"date":"2007-06-04T18:14:22","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T23:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayandcarissa.com\/carissa\/blog\/?p=491"},"modified":"2007-06-04T18:14:22","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T23:14:22","slug":"simple-pleasures-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"simple pleasures&#8211;songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>today on my run, i was listening to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fr7zVwX4fsU\">mushaboom<\/a>&#8221; by feist (which is possibly my favorite song to run to) and realized that one of the reasons i like it so much is because of all of the concrete images of simple pleasures.  i started thinking about other favorite songs of mine that deal with simple pleasures and came up with the following list:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;simple pleasures&#8221; by bobby mcferrin (duh!)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;don&#8217;t need anything&#8221; by glen phillips (you can hear it <a href=\"http:\/\/myspace.com\/glenphillips\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;i will not take these things for granted&#8221; by toad the wet sprocket<\/p>\n<p>that&#8217;s all i&#8217;ve got so far.  anyone else have nominations to add to the list?  four songs doth not a cd make.<\/p>\n<p>p.s. mr. happy stuff recently introduced me to a very talented high school musical trio (string bass, mandolin and harp!) &#8211;you can hear them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VSUX9byu6NY&#038;mode=related&#038;search=\">here<\/a> and also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thewrongtrousers\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>today on my run, i was listening to &#8220;mushaboom&#8221; by feist (which is possibly my favorite song to run to) and realized that one of the reasons i like it so much is because of all of the concrete images &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=491\">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":[10,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-la-la-la","category-sporty-stuff","category-stuff-that-makes-me-smile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}