{"id":2104,"date":"2012-07-09T22:48:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T02:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2012-07-10T16:52:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T20:52:19","slug":"death-by-carly-rae-jepsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/2012\/07\/death-by-carly-rae-jepsen.html","title":{"rendered":"Death by Carly Rae Jepsen"},"content":{"rendered":"

It started out innocuously enough. The song “Call Me Maybe”<\/a> would play on the the radio, and I’d change the station. It’s an annoying song. Truly. And then a friend posted a link to the Harvard baseball team dancing in their car to the song<\/a>. She thought it meant she was a cougar, because she liked the boys in the video. I thought it meant I was a total mom because all I could think was, “Why aren’t they wearing their seat belts? I can see them, right there in the corner! Put on the DAMN seat belts!” I played it for the girl. She liked it. And then there was the Barack Obama version<\/a>. I played it for the kids. They were amused.<\/p>\n

And then the kiddos went off to a movie-making camp. And for part of the camp they made a music video. To Carly Rae Jepsen. And that’s when I discovered how much the boy hates the song. I mean it really upsets him. Makes his skin crawl. Which means I now love it. Frequently. At top volume. The girl is in on this. <\/p>\n

I find the song online and play it. Today, we were driving home from the library and the song came on just as I pulled into the driveway. I locked the doors and cranked the volume, while the boy tried to frantically claw his way out of the minivan. But I prevailed. I feed lines to the girl. “Hey, I just met you!” I say. And she responds, “And this is crazy!” I whisper to the song to him as he’s falling asleep. “I’d trade my soul for a wish, pennies and dimes for a kiss…” [Edit: Even Cookie Monster is in on it<\/a>!]<\/p>\n

Just another reason of why I deserve the Mom of the Year award. And why he’ll be in therapy before he’s twelve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It started out innocuously enough. The song “Call Me Maybe” would play on the the radio, and I’d change the station. It’s an annoying song. Truly. And then a friend posted a link to the Harvard baseball team dancing in their car to the song. She thought it meant she was a cougar, because she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3,84],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-doodles","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyandadam.com\/Jenny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}