{"id":1386,"date":"2017-03-29T10:21:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T14:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/thezenpagan\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2017-03-29T10:21:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T14:21:18","slug":"big-black-cat-song-52-make-week-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thezenpagan\/2017\/03\/big-black-cat-song-52-make-week-11\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Big Black Cat&#8221; (Song, &#8220;52 Make-Up&#8221; Week 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1387\" style=\"display: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/560\/2017\/03\/snapshot.jpg\" alt=\"snapshot\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\">This week\u2019s installment of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thezenpagan\/category\/2017-52-creations\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">52 Makeup Challenge<\/a> is a fun little song.<\/p>\n<p>Where do songs come from? In this case, from 1. Seeing a big black cat in my back yard, 2. Tweeting about it, and 3. Noticing the nice rhythm of the phase \u201cBig black cat in my backyard\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Big black cat in my back yard, staring in at me through the window.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Swiss (@tom_swiss) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tom_swiss\/status\/845750612079857668\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">March 25, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStaring in at me through the window\u201d is not quite as rhythmic, and \u201cwindow\u201d doesn\u2019t have a lot of good rhymes; a minute\u2019s reflection shows that \u201cStaring through the window at me\u201d works better as a song lyric, And from there\u2019s we\u2019re off.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4SCgc6Joyws?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where do songs come from? 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