{"id":389,"date":"2008-09-18T20:17:33","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T03:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=389"},"modified":"2016-07-23T15:59:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T19:59:42","slug":"we-didnt-start-the-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"We Didn&#8217;t Start the Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today, when browsing the web for randomness at work, I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jibjab.com\/originals\/in_2007\">In 2007<\/a>, which most of you have probably seen before (I know, I&#8217;m way behind on internet stuffs).<\/p>\n<p>Reminded me that, in 6th grade, my humanities\/history class did our own version of the song (spanning the years 1986 through 1996, I believe).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/junk.alanv.org\/things\/We_Didn't_Start_the_Fire_(1996_Ver).mp3\">It&#8217;s now posted here<\/a> in case anyone is interested in listening to it.<\/p>\n<p>Apologies for the crap quality. It was recorded from some professional equipment onto cassette tape&#8230; then duplicated on different tape&#8230; then digitized through a microphone into WAV format&#8230; then converted into MP3 (it was the 90s, give me a break :P).<br \/>\nAs I recall, the class split into groups of 3 or so, each responsible for a year. We researched events that happened that year and assembled a verse. The verses were stitched together (hence why it mostly doesn&#8217;t rhyme) and we got a semi-professional artist to record it for us. Whee.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a version of this with the entire class singing it somewhere on a cassette tape in my closet&#8230; I should dig it out if I&#8217;m back in Arizona at some point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today, when browsing the web for randomness at work, I came across In 2007, which most of you have probably seen before (I know, I&#8217;m way behind on internet stuffs). Reminded me that, in 6th grade, my humanities\/history class &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/?p=389\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/journal2.alanv.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}