{"id":26915,"date":"2014-06-27T17:10:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T21:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=26915"},"modified":"2014-06-27T17:10:32","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T21:10:32","slug":"happy-birthday-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2014\/06\/27\/happy-birthday-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday To &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this isn&#8217;t a major holiday, but still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday To &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Happy Birthday To You&#8221; has a birthday.<br \/>\nYes, today is its notable mirth day.<br \/>\nBut &#8220;Good Morning To All&#8221;<br \/>\nWas its lyric. Don&#8217;t bawl!<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll concede it&#8217;s less key than, say, &#8220;Earth Day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The song &#8220;Happy Birthday To You&#8221; has a <a href=\" http:\/\/scholarship.law.gwu.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1303&#038;context=faculty_publications\">strange and complicated history.<\/a>  Its melody was first published on June 27, 1893 as &#8220;Good Morning to All,&#8221; with lyrics that have nothing to do with birthdays. And its copyright ownership has been the subject of numerous lawsuits.  Despite its advanced age, it somehow remains under copyright protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this isn&#8217;t a major holiday, but still&#8230; Happy Birthday To &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221; (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane &#8220;Happy Birthday To You&#8221; has a birthday. Yes, today is its notable mirth day. But &#8220;Good Morning To All&#8221; Was its lyric. Don&#8217;t bawl! I&#8217;ll concede it&#8217;s less key than, say, &#8220;Earth Day.&#8221; The song &#8220;Happy Birthday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,42,24,2991,1524],"tags":[4203,231,4202,4201,2096,146,1537,1263,5012,2630],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26915"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26915"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26927,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26915\/revisions\/26927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}