{"id":1256,"date":"2006-06-26T20:40:05","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T20:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2006-06-26T20:40:05","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T20:40:05","slug":"sweeping_the_cl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1256","title":{"rendered":"Sweeping The Clouds Away"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took a trip in the Wayback Machine when I watched this clip of Stevie Wonder laying down the funk on Sesame Street<\/A> with an extended rendition of “Superstition”.  I’m pretty sure I remember seeing this performance when I was a mere tyke.  Actually, I owe Sesame Street a sizable debt for setting me on a road to academic achievement and professional success.  My parents and Sesame Street<\/A> were probably the two biggest influences on my budding intellect.  Ernie was the character I wanted to hang out with the most, while Cookie Monster struck me as something of a simpleton.  As I got older, I became a devotee of The Electric Company<\/A> (“Hey, you guyyyys!”) and 3-2-1 Contact<\/A>, thus ensuring that I would be a lifelong acolyte of the Public Broadcasting Service. <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I took a trip in the Wayback Machine when I watched this clip of Stevie Wonder laying down the funk on Sesame Street with an extended rendition of “Superstition”.  I’m pretty sure I remember seeing this performance when I was a mere tyke.  Actually, I owe Sesame Street a sizable debt for setting me on […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-kg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}