{"id":1024,"date":"2008-07-14T15:26:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T20:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2008-07-14T15:26:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T20:26:42","slug":"heck-with-it-bambi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"Heck with It, Bambi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be jiggered if I can find it anywhere, but I would have bet that the original version of &#8220;Bambi&#8221; had a song with the following heroic lyric, so typical of the 1950&#8217;s:<br \/>\n<em>Bambi, Bambi, in spite of it all, little Bambi,<br \/>\nIf you keep on climbing (5 forgotten syllables here)<br \/>\nYou can get to the hilltop some day.<\/em><\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nNow, that&#8217;s the sort of crap that my sister and I had stuffed down our throats when we were kids.  The absurd idea that if you work hard, think big and have a dream, you can get to the top of the hill.  And you can do it alone, with the wind and the rain in your hair, arms akimbo, triumphant: as Peter once mocked, &#8220;I am the king of Sri Lanka&#8221;.<br \/>\nWell, thank you very much, I could have used a helping hand on the way to the top of that impossible-to-reach hill, and I&#8217;ve tried to provide a modest boost to my son and grandkids.<br \/>\nAnyone who expects the younger generation to do it on their own is a selfish jerk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be jiggered if I can find it anywhere, but I would have bet that the original version of &#8220;Bambi&#8221; had a song with the following heroic lyric, so typical of the 1950&#8217;s: Bambi, Bambi, in spite of it all, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=1024\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}