{"id":56,"date":"2013-06-07T01:39:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T01:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2013-06-08T04:05:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T04:05:46","slug":"new-ways-to-sing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/new-ways-to-sing-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovery: New ways to sing it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know someone owns the rights to Happy Birthday. That means every time you sing it, someone is supposed to make some pennies from it. They can&#8217;t yet make us pay ASCAP fees in our homes, but this is the reason we have goofy versions of the song sung to us by bored waitstaff at restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/\">Free Music Archive<\/a> has a collection of more than<a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Happy_Birthday_Song_Contest\/The_New_Birthday_Song_Contest\"> a hundred new ways to wish family and friends a happy birthday<\/a>. They were even kind enough to create <a href=\"http:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/curator\/FMA\/blog\/Announcing_the_Happy_Birthday_Replacement_Songs\">a set of winners<\/a> in case you don&#8217;t want to listen to all the joyous natal day singing. Plus, a great joy to my Creative Commons loving heart, all the songs are Creative Commons licensed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know someone owns the rights to Happy Birthday. That means every time you sing it, someone is supposed to make some pennies from it. They can&#8217;t yet make us pay ASCAP fees in our homes, but this is the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/07\/new-ways-to-sing-it\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewrittenpresence.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}