{"id":1454,"date":"2020-08-08T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyinfinitum.com\/gwumpastories\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2021-03-03T16:33:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T22:33:57","slug":"watermelon-sugar-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monkeyinfinitum.com\/gwumpastories\/2020\/08\/08\/watermelon-sugar-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon, sugar, EYE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grandboy (singing loudly)<br>Watermelon, sugar, EYE<br>Watermelon, sugar, EYE<br>Watermelon, sugar, EYE<br>Watermelon, sugar, EYE<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me (thinking): the lyrics actually are&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me (thinking more deeply): at his age, I&#8217;d be embarrassed to death if I didn&#8217;t know the lyrics. He&#8217;d likely stop singing if I corrected him now<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who knows? Maybe he&#8217;ll paint that future famous surreal mural of a Watermelon Sugar Eye someday<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"940\" height=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7-x3uD5z1bQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grandboy (singing loudly)Watermelon, sugar, EYEWatermelon, sugar, EYEWatermelon, sugar, EYEWatermelon, sugar, EYE Me (thinking): the lyrics actually are&#8230; Me (thinking&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p62ahB-ns","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":972,"url":"https:\/\/www.monkeyinfinitum.com\/gwumpastories\/2017\/08\/26\/gwumpa-oatmeal\/","url_meta":{"origin":1454,"position":0},"title":"Gwumpa oatmeal","author":"Gwumpa Stories","date":"August 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Thought I'd share this one. 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