{"id":26118,"date":"2014-06-24T01:52:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T05:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=26118"},"modified":"2014-06-24T01:59:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T05:59:37","slug":"born-in-arizona-moved-to-babylonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/born-in-arizona-moved-to-babylonia\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Born in Arizona, Moved to Babylonia&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was at the gym yesterday, Steve Martin&#8217;s 1978 novelty hit, &#8220;King Tut,&#8221; popped up on my iPod. I had to listen to it three or four times. I love that song! Then I raced home to look up the original <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> performance. Click the screen cap below to view it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26119\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/screen.yahoo.com\/king-tut-000000724.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26119\" class=\"wp-image-26119 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/steve_martin_king_tut.jpeg\" alt=\"steve_martin_king_tut\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/steve_martin_king_tut.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/steve_martin_king_tut-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-26119\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Buried with a donkey &#8230; he&#8217;s my favorite honkey!&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Steve did the song at his live shows. Here&#8217;s one video of that.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wgTPH5y1-ZI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I prefer the <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> version with the full costume, but the concert performance on YouTube does have the advantage of coming with the usual stupid YouTube comments, one of which was, &#8220;I know it&#8217;s for fun, but there&#8217;s nothing funny about making fun of King Tut.&#8221; The response from another commenter made my day:<br \/>\n<center><strong><br \/>\n&#8220;TOO SOON?&#8221;<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p>LOL. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was at the gym yesterday, Steve Martin&#8217;s 1978 novelty hit, &#8220;King Tut,&#8221; popped up on my iPod. I had to listen to it three or four times. I love that song! Then I raced home to look up the original Saturday Night Live performance. Click the screen cap below to view it. Steve&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/born-in-arizona-moved-to-babylonia\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[508,42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-humor","8":"category-music","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26123,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26118\/revisions\/26123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}