{"id":1700,"date":"2009-01-07T22:17:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T06:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=1700"},"modified":"2009-01-07T22:17:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T06:17:31","slug":"cherry-lips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/07\/cherry-lips\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Lips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I recently heard an old song on a TV show and really dig it: <strong>Cherry Lips<\/strong> by Garbage<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pqaUZkf52fs&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pqaUZkf52fs&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pqaUZkf52fs\">YouTube Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, it wasn&#8217;t after listening to 20+ times that I realized the song was <strong>about a boy<\/strong>!!! According to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cherry_Lips\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Shirley wrote the lyrics in the song as a tribute to writer &#8220;JT LeRoy&#8221;, pseudonym of Laura Albert, with whom she has an email friendship, after reading &#8220;his&#8221; two novels Sarah and The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things. The song is loosely based on the two novels, apparently <strong>referencing the character &#8216;Cherry&#8217;, a cross-dressing child-prostitute<\/strong> from the novel Sarah.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I recently heard an old song on a TV show and really dig it: Cherry Lips by Garbage YouTube Link However, it wasn&#8217;t after listening to 20+ times that I realized the song was about a boy!!! According to Wikipedia: Shirley wrote the lyrics in the song as a tribute to writer &#8220;JT LeRoy&#8221;, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/07\/cherry-lips\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cherry Lips&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[978,977],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}