{"id":504,"date":"2009-03-10T23:30:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T03:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=504"},"modified":"2010-04-13T00:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T04:48:00","slug":"takeout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2009\/03\/10\/takeout\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To Takeout (Song Parody to be sung to My Favorite Things)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not much of a cook.   Don&#8217;t believe me? Just try reading (or singing) my <em>Ode To Takeout  <\/em>song parody, which I wrote for <em>And They Cook, Too: A Blogger Cookbook and fundraiser for Doctors Without Borders.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ode To Takeout (Sing To <em>My Favorite Things<\/em>)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Baked meat lasagna and Indian curry.<br \/>\nSesame noodles. I&#8217;m famished! Please hurry!<br \/>\nBuddha&#8217;s Delight that is fit for a king.<br \/>\nTakeout is one of my favorite things.<\/p>\n<p>Greek beef moussaka and cheese ravioli.<br \/>\nBrocc&#8217;li and eggplant, stir fried with aioli.<br \/>\nBarbecued chicken: Just breasts and some wings.<br \/>\nTakeout is one of my favorite things.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m feeling<br \/>\nPangs of hunger,<br \/>\nNeed fine food to eat,<br \/>\nI thumb through my menus and pick up the phone.<br \/>\nCause takeout just can&#8217;t be beat.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey with stuffing that isn&#8217;t too mushy.<br \/>\nBeef yakiniku, but please hold the sushi.<br \/>\nSalad that&#8217;s topped with a dressing that zings.<br \/>\nTakeout is one of my favorite things.<\/p>\n<p>Chicken with walnuts and garlic, quite spicy.<br \/>\nFilet mignon. I don&#8217;t care that it&#8217;s pricey.<br \/>\nLo mein and dumplings and fried onion rings.<br \/>\nTakeout is one of my favorite things.<\/p>\n<p>When I yearn for<br \/>\nSomething tasty<br \/>\nNeed good food to eat,<br \/>\nI leaf through my menus and reach for the phone.<br \/>\nCause takeout just can&#8217;t be beat. <\/p>\n<p>(Author&#8217;s Note: I live in an ethnic food wonderland &#8212; Bayside, Queens, New York &#8212; which is why all this and more can be (and often is) delivered to my home.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not much of a cook. Don&#8217;t believe me? Just try reading (or singing) my Ode To Takeout song parody, which I wrote for And They Cook, Too: A Blogger Cookbook and fundraiser for Doctors Without Borders. Ode To Takeout (Sing To My Favorite Things) By Madeleine Begun Kane Baked meat lasagna and Indian curry. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,41,24,1276,250,119],"tags":[256,261,251,259,260,142,255,254,258,257,252,253],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-behavior-personality","category-food-drink-humor","category-music-humor","category-queens-verse-humor","category-song-parodies","category-telephone-humor","tag-bayside","tag-bayside-restaurants","tag-cooking","tag-delivery","tag-ethnic","tag-food","tag-kitchen","tag-menus","tag-new-york","tag-queens","tag-song-parody","tag-takeout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}