{"id":230830,"date":"2025-10-22T02:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/230830\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T02:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T02:40:11","slug":"couldnt-sleep-did-a-cover-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/230830\/","title":{"rendered":"Couldn\u2019t Sleep; Did a Cover Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-date text-center\">\n<p>\t\t\tPosted on\t\t\t<a class=\"post-date-link\" href=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2025\/10\/21\/couldnt-sleep-did-a-cover-song\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 21, 2025<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\t\t\tPosted by\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/author\/scalzi\/\" title=\"Posts by John Scalzi\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Scalzi<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t \u00a0\n\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t sleep because a certain black kitten decided that he wanted to sleep on my face, precipitating a coughing fit that knocked slumber right out of me. So, here: a cover of \u201cBring On the Dancing Horses\u201d from Echo &amp; the Bunnymen, which I started recording the other night, and now was a fine time to finish it up. It\u2019s a little more drum-heavy than the original version; what can I say, I like drums. Some people are like that. <\/p>\n<p>For those of you too young and\/or tragically unhip to have ever heard the original, here it is for compare and contrast:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Now I\u2019m tired. I think I\u2019ll try to go back to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JS<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u2190 <a href=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2025\/10\/20\/a-quick-shoutout-to-the-avery-hotel\/\" rel=\"prev nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Quick Shoutout To The Avery Hotel<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2025\/10\/21\/the-big-idea-juliet-brooks\/\" rel=\"next nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Big Idea: Juliet Brooks<\/a> \u2192<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted on October 21, 2025 \u00a0\u00a0 Posted by John Scalzi \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 I couldn\u2019t sleep because a certain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-230830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}