{"id":33921,"date":"2024-05-10T11:42:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T11:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=33921"},"modified":"2024-05-10T11:50:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T11:50:19","slug":"cholesteatoma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2024\/05\/10\/cholesteatoma\/","title":{"rendered":"Cholesteatoma"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Cholesteatoma-Part-I.mp3\"> Cholesteatoma-Part-I.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Cholesteatoma-Part-I.mp4\"> Cholesteatoma-Part-I.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Cholesteatoma-Part-II.mp3\"> Cholesteatoma-Part-II.mp3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/Cholesteatoma-Part-II.mp4\"> Cholesteatoma-Part-II.mp4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are you in a coma<br \/>\nOr do you have Cholesteatoma?<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nJeez<br \/>\nDo you have some kind of disease<br \/>\nPlease<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a detriment, seek treatment<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nA smelly discharge from your ear<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure that you can hear<br \/>\nWhen ever the truth gets near<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re gripped by fear and jeer<br \/>\n[Break]<br \/>\nWhat?<br \/>\nBut, but butt<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nAre you feeling sick<br \/>\nOr just thick<br \/>\nAre you feeling ill<br \/>\nOr just shrill swill<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nA smelly discharge from your ear<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure that you can hear<br \/>\nWhen ever the truth gets near<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re gripped by fear and jeer<br \/>\n[Break]<br \/>\nWhat?<br \/>\nBut, but butt<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nWhat did you say<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not O.K.<\/p>\n<p>A SCIENCE NOTE<br \/>\nThis song uses medical metaphors to convey the idea of being in denial or oblivious to a problem, which can be applied to climate change denial. The reference to &#8220;coma&#8221; and &#8220;Cholesteatoma&#8221; suggests a state of being unaware or unresponsive to a serious issue.<\/p>\n<h2>From the album &#8220;Fingers in My Ears&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/Listening-Deficit.html\">Listening Deficit<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/\">MegaEpix Enormous<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/membrane.com\/global_warming\/\">A song about The Human Induced Climate Change Experiment<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cholesteatoma-Part-I.mp3 Cholesteatoma-Part-I.mp4 Cholesteatoma-Part-II.mp3 Cholesteatoma-Part-II.mp4 Are you in a coma Or do you have Cholesteatoma? [Verse 1] Jeez Do you have some kind of disease Please It&#8217;s a detriment, seek treatment [Chorus] A smelly discharge from your ear I&#8217;m not sure that you can hear When ever the truth gets near You&#8217;re gripped by fear and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,12,14,3955],"tags":[163,3961,546,563],"class_list":["post-33921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-daniel","category-listening-deficit","category-lyrics","category-megaepix-enormous","tag-climate-change","tag-fingers-in-my-ears","tag-mp4","tag-music-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33941,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33921\/revisions\/33941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}