{"id":76,"date":"2008-10-14T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/wp\/?p=76"},"modified":"2016-07-20T14:57:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T19:57:40","slug":"wake-up-to-thee-oat-man-cant-afford-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Wake up to thee Oat-Man, can&#8217;t afford ya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our potential list developers was unsure of the release date of one of their favorite songs \u201cWake up to thee Oat-Man, can&#8217;t afford ya\u201d although I consider myself quite knowledgeable in the music of the 70s I did not recognize this tune (although that is not a prerequisite for inclusions on any of the lists). I was curious and asked for more information. I was then supplied with the lyrics as best as they could be recalled. Perhaps you know the artist and release date?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial; color: #993300;\">On the dock, there&#8217;s a highway, cool whip in my hair<br \/>\nOne smell I could eat dust, rising up through the air<br \/>\nUp ahead in the distance, I saw she moon light<br \/>\nMy head grew heavy and my sack rolled in<br \/>\nI had to stop for the night<br \/>\nDead fish in the doorway;<br \/>\nI heard the mission bell<br \/>\nAnd I was thinking to myself,<br \/>\n\u2019this could be heaven or this could be hell\u2019<br \/>\nThen she lit up a Ken doll and she showed me the way<br \/>\nThere were horses down the corridor,<br \/>\nI thought I heard them say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the hotel California<br \/>\nSuch a lovely place<br \/>\nSuch a lovely face<br \/>\nRenting a room at the Hotel California<br \/>\nAny time you&#8217;re here, you can buy me beer.<\/p>\n<p>Her mind is definitely-twisted, she got the Mercedes bends<br \/>\nShe got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls fins<br \/>\nHow they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.<br \/>\nSome days to remember, some days to forget<\/p>\n<p>So I called up the captain,<br \/>\n\u2019please bring me my wife<br \/>\nHe said, \u2019we haven\u2019t had that spilled in here since nineteen sixty nine\u2019<br \/>\nAnd still those voices are calling from far away,<br \/>\nWe threw-up in the middle of the night<br \/>\nJust to hear them say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the hotel California<br \/>\nSuch a lovely place<br \/>\nSuch a lovely face<br \/>\nThey livin\u2019 it up at the hotel California<br \/>\nWhat a nice surprise when you&#8217;re out of ice<\/p>\n<p>Mirrors are deceiving,<br \/>\nThe pink champagne on ice<br \/>\nAnd she said \u2019we are all just prisoners here, of our own device\u2019<br \/>\nAnd in the bastards chambers,<br \/>\nThey gathered for the feast<br \/>\nThe stab it with their silly knives,<br \/>\nBut they just can&#8217;t kill the feet<\/p>\n<p>Last thing I remember, I was<br \/>\nRunning for the door<br \/>\nI had to find the passage back<br \/>\nTo the place I was before<br \/>\n&#8216;Relax&#8217;, said the nice man,<br \/>\n&#8216;We are, go back to your seat.<br \/>\nYou can checkout any time you like,<br \/>\nBut you can never pee!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our potential list developers was unsure of the release date of one of their favorite songs \u201cWake up to thee Oat-Man, can&#8217;t afford ya\u201d although I consider myself quite knowledgeable in the music of the 70s I did not recognize this tune (although that is not a prerequisite for inclusions on any of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thechristys.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}