{"id":13246,"date":"2014-02-07T16:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T21:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=13246"},"modified":"2014-02-07T14:23:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-07T19:23:48","slug":"some-kind-of-skin-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/07\/some-kind-of-skin-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Kind of Skin Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Well Frank settled down in the Valley<br \/>\nand he hung his wild years<br \/>\non a nail that he drove through<br \/>\nhis wife&#8217;s forehead<br \/>\nhe sold used office furniture<br \/>\nout there on San Fernando Road<br \/>\nand assumed a $30,000 loan<br \/>\nat fifteen and a quarter percent and put a down payment<br \/>\non a little two bedroom place<br \/>\nhis wife was a spent piece of used jet trash<br \/>\nmade good bloody marys<br \/>\nkept her mouth shut most of the time<br \/>\nhad a little Chihuahua named Carlos<br \/>\nthat had some kind of skin disease<br \/>\nand was totally blind. They had a thoroughly modern kitchen<br \/>\nself-cleaning oven (the whole bit)<br \/>\nFrank drove a little sedan<br \/>\nthey were so happy<\/p>\n<p>One night Frank was on his way home<br \/>\nfrom work, stopped at the liquor store,<br \/>\npicked up a couple Mickey&#8217;s Big Mouths<br \/>\ndrank &#8217;em in the car on his way<br \/>\nto the Shell station, he got a gallon of<br \/>\ngas in a can, drove home, doused<br \/>\neverything in the house, torched it,<br \/>\nparked across the street, laughing<br \/>\nwatching it burn, all Halloween<br \/>\norange and chimney red then<br \/>\nFrank put on a top forty station<br \/>\ngot on the Hollywood Freeway<br \/>\nheaded North<\/p>\n<p>Never could stand that dog.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;Tom Waits, Frank&#8217;s Wild Years, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomwaits.com\/songs\/#\/songs\/song\/137\/Franks_Wild_Years\/\" target=\"_blank\">lyrics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well Frank settled down in the Valley and he hung his wild years on a nail that he drove through his wife&#8217;s forehead he sold used office furniture out there on San Fernando Road and assumed a $30,000 loan at fifteen and a quarter percent and put a down payment on a little two bedroom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1840,200],"class_list":["post-13246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-never-could-stand-that-dog","tag-tom-waits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->