{"id":150,"date":"2008-10-20T18:34:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T16:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/?p=150"},"modified":"2008-12-20T17:43:29","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T15:43:29","slug":"monkeys-dont-do-those-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/archives\/150","title":{"rendered":"Monkeys don't do those things"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" align=\"left\"><strong>Monkeys don\u2019t do those things<\/strong><br \/>\nby Tamir Buchshtav<br \/>\nbased on &quot;Ladies don't do those things&quot; by Escape Key<\/p>\n<p>I was born in a cave as my clan used to be<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019d never look more then a caveman to thee<br \/>\nCause humans in my time were weaklings and prey<br \/>\nBut progress\u2019 the power that would win us the day<br \/>\nIt was back in our first cave it came to a head<br \/>\nWhen a few proto-tigers would prey on our band<br \/>\nBut its life that we want and to spread on the world<br \/>\nI heard my sons then saying:<br \/>\n\u201cMonkeys don\u2019t do those things\u201d<br \/>\nOh no they don\u2019t but then torch-bearers do<br \/>\nStay safe in your cave until I come for you<br \/>\nAnd when I came back from the mountains of flame<br \/>\nYou never once though to get over your shame<br \/>\nWhat your brains can do you never knew<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe years passed on by, we came to a new cave<br \/>\nRunning fast from a blaze so our lives would be saved<br \/>\nEvolution is fast, we cannot sit and snooze<br \/>\nAn invention I had then was worthy to use<br \/>\nWhen I showed my sons how to use the new bow<br \/>\nTo kill dear from further then stones we can throw<br \/>\nThe men in my family were scared and appalled<br \/>\nAnd spattered and stalled saying:<br \/>\n\u201cMonkeys don\u2019t do those things\u201d<br \/>\nOh no they don\u2019t but then hunting man can<br \/>\nAnd the world that\u2019s around us will fall to our hands<br \/>\nWell you never resented the dinners I caught<br \/>\nI suppose you\u2019d have rather been starving then not<br \/>\nYou monkeys can turn into men.<\/p>\n<p>Sons, you see now and then as the years pass on by<br \/>\nMy inventions can fail, then in outrage you cry<br \/>\nBut progress s here and to stop it you can\u2019t<br \/>\nDon\u2019t think I don\u2019t know that my death you have planned<br \/>\nWhen you and the clan came to me in the hunt<br \/>\nTo kill me and ear me and stop what you shunned<br \/>\nWell, know when you do that your planning has failed<br \/>\nI\u2019m haunting you now saying:<br \/>\n\u201cMonkeys can do those things\u201d<br \/>\nOh yes the can evolution is here<br \/>\nAnd killing one man will not stop it, you hear?<br \/>\nAnother will come and continue my work<br \/>\nInventing the wheel and the steel and the spork<br \/>\nDon\u2019t sit on your laurels to long\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monkeys don\u2019t do those things by Tamir Buchshtav based on &quot;Ladies don't do those things&quot; by Escape Key I was born in a cave as my clan used to be And I\u2019d never look more then a caveman to thee Cause humans in my time were weaklings and prey But progress\u2019 the power that would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,13],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fuzzy-fish.com\/wordpress-he\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}