{"id":889,"date":"2006-11-09T16:55:55","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T16:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yetiinabox.wordpress.com\/2006\/11\/09\/lyrics\/"},"modified":"2006-11-09T16:55:55","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T16:55:55","slug":"lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/2006\/11\/09\/lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just listening to the Bush Tetras, and they said,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You can&#8217;t be funky if you haven&#8217;t got a soul&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(\u2018Can&#8217;t be funky\u2019, from <em>New York Noise<\/em>, Rough Trade.)<\/p>\n<p>Not, \u2018if you haven&#8217;t got soul.\u2019 No, they said, \u2018a soul\u2019. I think the only way out of this is to read it as <em>a-soul<\/em>, that is, the \u2018a\u2019 of the Perfection of Wisdom texts, a negating prefix cognate to the <em>a<\/em> of anomie and apathy. Hence, we can take this to mean,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You can\u2018t be funky if you haven&#8217;t got no-self.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Taken this way, a proper experientially grounded realization of enlightenment is a necessary but not sufficient precursor to being funky.<\/p>\n<p>There, now I feel much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just listening to the Bush Tetras, and they said,\u00a0 \u2018You can&#8217;t be funky if you haven&#8217;t got a soul&#8217;.\u00a0 (\u2018Can&#8217;t be funky\u2019, from New York Noise, Rough Trade.)&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,204,210,214,228],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-buddhism","tag-enlightenment","tag-funk","tag-itunes","tag-post-punk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s2DSYH-lyrics","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}