{"id":59,"date":"2016-03-19T00:03:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T04:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2022-12-27T16:27:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T21:27:29","slug":"top-5-car-metaphor-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/03\/19\/top-5-car-metaphor-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Car Metaphor Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard Rihanna&#8217;s somewhat lazy &#8220;Shut Up And Drive&#8221; on the radio today and it got me thinking about better songs that used cars as a metaphor for something else.  So I present my Top 5 Car Metaphor Songs.  <em>NOTE: The list does NOT include songs that are actually about cars!<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Top 5 Car Metaphor Songs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Little Red Corvette&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; Prince<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ultimedia.com\/swf\/iframe_pub.php?width=240&amp;height=192&amp;id=surq0&amp;url_artist=http:\/\/www.jukebo.com\/prince\/music-clip,little-red-corvette,surq0.html&amp;autoplay=0&amp;mdtk=04516441&amp;site=.fr\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"192\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Stolen Car&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; Bruce Springsteen<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"280\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e2g2YJPjxVE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Pull Up To The Bumper&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; Grace Jones<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tc1IphRx1pk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The Distance&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; Cake<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QzeksmL4KBY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Motor Away&#8221;<\/strong> &#8211; Guided By Voices<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"280\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m8xpn0edL2Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Did I miss your favorite?  I welcome your comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard Rihanna&#8217;s somewhat lazy &#8220;Shut Up And Drive&#8221; on the radio today and it got me thinking about better songs that used cars as a metaphor for something else. So I present my Top 5 Car Metaphor Songs. NOTE: The list does NOT include songs that are actually about cars! Top 5 Car Metaphor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kumar.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}