{"id":377,"date":"2004-09-24T17:02:04","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T17:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=377"},"modified":"2004-09-24T17:02:04","modified_gmt":"2004-09-24T17:02:04","slug":"get-thee-to-a-nunnery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"Get thee to a nunnery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standing in the bathroom at work, minding my business, I'm listening to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muzak.com\/muzak.html\">muzak<\/a>, and <A href=\"http:\/\/www.peggylee.com\/home.html\">Peggy Lee's<\/a> \"Fever\" is playing. Apparently, I'd never really listened to the lyrics of this thing because when she gets to this verse, I break out laughing and narrowly avoid causing a scene (saved by my exceptional handling, ahem, of the situation) at the sheer silliness:<\/p>\n<ul>Romeo loved Juliet<br \/>\nJuliet she felt the same<br \/>\nWhen he put his arms around her<br \/>\nHe said, \"Julie baby you're my flame\"<br \/>\nThou givest fever<br \/>\nWhen we kisseth<br \/>\nFever with thy flaming youth<br \/>\nFever - I'm on fire<br \/>\nFever, yea I burn forsoothe<\/ul>\n<p>It was the \"Thou givest fever\" line that got me. She sings it with the same rhythm and sultry delivery that she uses when she sings the familiar \"You give me <i>fe<\/i>-ver\" line: \"Thou giv-est <i>fe<\/i>-ver\". Yeah, verily. Suddenly, instead of a revved up sex kitten purring about how hot she's running, she's a 15h<sup>th<\/sup> century strumpet and I'm wondering if the fever she's going on about isn't the Black Death; \"Prithee madam, hast thou pustules?\" <\/p>\n<p>She couldn't have knocked me out of that song any quicker if she'd done the verse in Cantonese.<\/p>\n<p>I hope the other guy in there knew what I was laughing at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing in the bathroom at work, minding my business, I'm listening to the muzak, and Peggy Lee's \"Fever\" is playing. Apparently, I'd never really listened to the lyrics of this thing because when she gets to this verse, I break out laughing and narrowly avoid causing a scene (saved by my exceptional handling, ahem, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}