{"id":1032,"date":"2013-08-20T16:35:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T23:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2013-08-20T16:34:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T23:34:17","slug":"inside-michelle-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"Inside Michelle&#8217;s Brain, episode 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who know me pretty well know that I love pretty much all music with the exception of Country and Hip-Hop. I have been known to have seizures when forced to listen to anything with a twang. <\/p>\n<p>The other day in the car, I was singing along with Patsy Cline. <\/p>\n<p>Husband: &#8220;What&#8217;s with the twangy music? You should be having seizures by now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me:  &#8220;It&#8217;s Patsy Cline. Patsy Cline doesn&#8217;t count.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Husband: &#8220;This is about as twangy as it gets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Me: &#8220;But it&#8217;s Patsy Cline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Husband: clunks head on dashboard. <\/p>\n<p>What?!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who know me pretty well know that I love pretty much all music with the exception of Country and Hip-Hop. I have been known to have seizures when forced to listen to anything with a twang. The other day in the car, I was singing along with Patsy Cline. Husband: &#8220;What&#8217;s with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=1032\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Inside Michelle&#8217;s Brain, episode 4<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-gE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2492,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=2492","url_meta":{"origin":1032,"position":0},"title":"I fall to pieces","author":"Michelle","date":"November 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"They say they'd die for love and then they live it out They'll give you something to cry about And suddenly you really fall to pieces... --Elvis Costello\/Town Cryer Everyone has different ways of coping with excess emotion. 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