{"id":1054,"date":"2013-08-21T15:30:20","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T22:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2013-08-21T12:22:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T19:22:17","slug":"shes-a-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"She&#8217;s a what?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I was listening to the song &#8220;Brick House&#8221; on my way to work this morning, and something has always bugged me about that song. <\/p>\n<p>No, not that it&#8217;s a Commodores song and what was it doing in my ipod. <\/p>\n<p>Well. Actually.<br \/>\nYes. <\/p>\n<p>But no. <\/p>\n<p>The babe in question is supposed to be 36-24-36, right? But isn&#8217;t the song title taken from the expression &#8220;built like a brick shithouse?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t get it. <\/p>\n<p> A brick shithouse is a very large rectangle. Meatloaf is built like a brick shithouse. Not a hot chick with a big rack and tiny waist.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m over-analyzing again, aren&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll go back to singing along. <\/p>\n<p>But in my mind, Lionel Ritchie is totally singing about Meatloaf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was listening to the song &#8220;Brick House&#8221; on my way to work this morning, and something has always bugged me about that song. No, not that it&#8217;s a Commodores song and what was it doing in my ipod. Well. Actually. Yes. But no. The babe in question is supposed to be 36-24-36, right? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=1054\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">She&#8217;s a what?!?<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lr3R-h0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4834,"url":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=4834","url_meta":{"origin":1054,"position":0},"title":"Songs I will never sing to a child I will not have","author":"Michelle","date":"April 8, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the many lists I've written over the years was a list of songs I would have sung to my child. 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