{"id":1104,"date":"2007-04-27T07:45:04","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T12:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2007-04-27T07:45:04","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T12:45:04","slug":"on-bobby-pickett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"On Bobby Pickett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may not know the name Bobby Pickett, but you almost certainly know his music&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I was working in my lab late one night<br \/>\nWhen my eyes beheld an eerie sight<br \/>\nMy monster on the slab began to rise<br \/>\nSuddenly, to my surprise<\/p>\n<p>He did the mash<br \/>\nHe did the Monster Mash<br \/>\nThe Monster Mash<br \/>\nIt was a graveyard smash<br \/>\nIt was a smash<br \/>\nIt caught on in a flash<br \/>\nThe Monster Mash<br \/>\nHe did the Monster Mash<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2007\/04\/26\/ap\/entertainment\/main2732768.shtml\">Bobby Pickett passed away Wednesday<\/a>.  Leukemia, according to reports.  He was sixty-nine.<\/p>\n<p>As for &#8220;The Monster Mash,&#8221; my favorite version has to be the Bonzo Dog Band cover.  Vivian Stanshall sounds like a complete nutter, and no<i>body<\/i> did novelty songs better than the Bonzo Dogs. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Bobby Pickett.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not know the name Bobby Pickett, but you almost certainly know his music&#8230;. I was working in my lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight My monster on the slab began to rise Suddenly, to my surprise He did the mash He did the Monster Mash The Monster Mash<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1104\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Bobby Pickett&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[758,1147],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-bonzo-dog-doo-dah-band","tag-monster-mash","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}