{"id":1863,"date":"2002-01-11T13:04:43","date_gmt":"2002-01-11T20:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2002-01-11T13:04:43","modified_gmt":"2002-01-11T20:04:43","slug":"cailin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2002\/01\/11\/cailin\/","title":{"rendered":"Cailin"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was driving me craaaazy<\/i>. I could vaguely remember exactly two lines from a year-old pop song called “Kaitlin” or “Caitlin” or something. Finally, in desperation, I wrote my local radio station:<\/p>\n

Early in 2001, there was song getting lots of play on the radio. It was a poppy little tune about a girl, and some DJ said that it had actually been written by the lead singer for his daughter. The daughter’s name, as near as I can remember, was “Kaitlyn,” or some variation thereof (e.g. Catlyn), or something similar (e.g. Kathrine).<\/p>\n

Two lines of the chorus when something like<\/p>\n

“When everything just falls to bits
\nI think of you, my own Kaitlyn …”<\/p>\n

… or somesuch …<\/p>\n

The band was not a well known one. This song rapidly faded into oscurity. [The radio station] Star 101.5<\/a> may have been the only station in the Seattle area playing it.<\/p>\n

Any clue?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, moments after hitting [send], it came to me. “Cailin” by Unwritten Law<\/a>. Boo-ya!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was driving me craaaazy. I could vaguely remember exactly two lines from a year-old pop song called “Kaitlin” or “Caitlin” or something. Finally, in desperation, I wrote my local radio station: Early in 2001, there was song getting lots of play on the radio. It was a poppy little tune about a girl, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}