{"id":1537,"date":"2008-07-23T21:08:51","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T02:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1537"},"modified":"2008-07-24T20:13:13","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T01:13:13","slug":"boom-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1537","title":{"rendered":"Boom Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas, Misty&#8217;s mom got me a set of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boomwhackers.com\/\">boomwhackers<\/a>. They&#8217;re pitched plastic tubes &#8212; think handbells for people too nerdy to play handbells. After I got them, I had fun playing various simple songs for Eli. Then I started wondering: could I do something more complex with them?<\/p>\n<p>The result, through a chain of reasoning I will not attempt to reproduce: Boom Monkey, a cover of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathancoulton.com\/songdetails\/Code%20Monkey\">Jonathan Coulton&#8217;s Code Monkey<\/a>. The vocals are his; I did the arrangement and played the instruments, where by &#8220;instruments&#8221; I mean &#8220;boomwhackers and a shaker&#8221;. Boom Monkey is licensed under the <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/3.0\/us\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 US license<\/a>. You can either <a href=\"\/downloads\/BoomMonkey.mp3\">download the mp3<\/a> or listen to it below.<\/p>\n[audio:BoomMonkey.mp3]\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: By request, I&#8217;ve made a separate <a href=\"\/downloads\/BoomMonkeyInstrumental.mp3\">instrumental version<\/a> of the song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Christmas, Misty&#8217;s mom got me a set of boomwhackers. They&#8217;re pitched plastic tubes &#8212; think handbells for people too nerdy to play handbells. After I got them, I had fun playing various simple songs for Eli. Then I started wondering: could I do something more complex with them? The result, through a chain of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=1537\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boom Monkey<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1537\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}