{"id":881,"date":"2008-06-12T23:24:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T03:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2008\/06\/12\/tonight%e2%80%99s-essential-triviality\/"},"modified":"2008-06-13T11:51:23","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T15:51:23","slug":"tonight%e2%80%99s-essential-triviality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/881","title":{"rendered":"Tonight\u2019s essential triviality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Composer Earle Hagen just died of natural causes, a few days short of his 90th birthday. Hagen did orchestrations for Rodgers and Hammerstein and major Hollywood movies before he hit it big with television music. I guess my favorite is the theme he created for <em>I-Spy.<\/em> Better known for <em>The Andy Griffith Show<\/em> and <em>That Girl<\/em>, he will nonetheless be remembered in the annals of Clan Hayride Lore for writing that obscure crowd-pleaser, <em>Rango.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Now that I\u2019m thinking about television theme songs, I finally realized why I like the intro for <em>Firefly<\/em> so much: Joss Whedon simply lifted the best musical attributes of <em>Tennessee Stud.<\/em> All artists steal from each other, right? A long-standing tradition.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Hmmm . . . now I\u2019m beginning to wonder if Brendan swiped the 8-note melody of <em>A Grandy-bo Christmas Surprise<\/em> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hourofknowledge.com\/\">his new podcast series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From San Antone to the Rio Grande,<br \/>\nOn mountain peak or desert sand,<br \/>\nEvery outlaw feared the hand of danger,<br \/>\nThis Texas Ranger\u2014<br \/>\nRango, Rango, Ra-ang-go-o-oh! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Composer Earle Hagen just died of natural causes, a few days short of his 90th birthday. Hagen did orchestrations for Rodgers and Hammerstein and major Hollywood movies before he hit it big with television music. I guess my favorite is the theme he created for I-Spy. Better known for The Andy Griffith Show and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,7,68,18,23,16,15,52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}