{"id":298,"date":"2011-05-03T00:05:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T07:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mefi.pronoiac.org\/stf\/?p=298"},"modified":"2013-01-06T18:08:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T02:08:51","slug":"what-if-god-wanted-pasta-sauce-by-sparkletone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mefi.pronoiac.org\/stf\/2011\/05\/03\/what-if-god-wanted-pasta-sauce-by-sparkletone\/","title":{"rendered":"What If God Wanted Pasta Sauce by sparkletone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/music.metafilter.com\/919\/What-If-God-Wanted-Pasta-Sauce\">What If God Wanted Pasta Sauce<\/a> is a very earnest-sounding spoof of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B4CRkpBGQzU\">Joan Osborne&#8217;s &#8220;One Of Us,&#8221;<\/a> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster\">Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a> and Pastafarianism. <\/p>\n<p>As an aside, using subjunctive voice, the original lyric should be &#8220;what if God <i>were<\/i> one of us,&#8221; not &#8220;was.&#8221;  Performing the corrected version at karaoke (as a Militant Grammarian) struck my fancy, but I haven&#8217;t gotten around to it yet. <\/p>\n<p>A historical curiosity: I&#8217;ve been posting songs in the order they were originally posted, and I recently caught up to the date I joined Metafilter.  <a href=\"http:\/\/mefi.pronoiac.org\/stf\/2011\/04\/21\/aware-by-electric-winter\/\">Aware by Electric Winter<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mefi.pronoiac.org\/stf\/2011\/04\/22\/get-out-of-my-songs-by-goodnewsfortheinsane\/\">Get Out of My Songs by goodnewsfortheinsane<\/a> were both posted that day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What If God Wanted Pasta Sauce is a very earnest-sounding spoof of Joan Osborne&#8217;s &#8220;One Of Us,&#8221; about the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Pastafarianism. As an aside, using subjunctive voice, the original lyric should be &#8220;what if God were one &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mefi.pronoiac.org\/stf\/2011\/05\/03\/what-if-god-wanted-pasta-sauce-by-sparkletone\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[125,105,126,127,124,123],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flying-spaghetti-monster","tag-parody","tag-pastafarians","tag-pirates","tag-spoof","tag-user-sparkletone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mefi.pronoiac.org\/stf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mefi.pronoiac.org\/stf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mefi.pronoiac.org\/stf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mefi.pronoiac.org\/stf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mefi.pronoiac.org\/stf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mefi.pronoiac.org\/stf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2569,"href":"http:\/\/mefi.pronoiac.org\/stf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mefi.pronoiac.org\/stf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mefi.pronoiac.org\/stf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mefi.pronoiac.org\/stf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}