{"id":355,"date":"2022-05-23T08:35:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T08:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baywhitaker.co.uk\/?p=355"},"modified":"2022-07-10T16:57:05","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T16:57:05","slug":"the-rat-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baywhitaker.co.uk\/?p=355","title":{"rendered":"The Rat Song"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2018 heavy rain flooded the river in Hillsborough where we live.  Our house is on higher ground, so perhaps that was why a rat decided to come in our house.  My daughter Holly was about 13 at the time and I was in the garden when she came out and informed me there was a rat sitting on our shelves.  I couldn&#8217;t believe it!  We never had a rat before.   So there was a puzzle &#8211; what to do?  Well, the song tells the story of what we did do, and the different people and animals that we invited to help us.  All true.  Honest to God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p><em>Me and Holly, we were well freaked out!<\/em><\/p><cite>The Rat Song<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/baywhitaker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rat-with-effects-2.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"330\" height=\"280\" src=\"http:\/\/baywhitaker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/main_brown-rat-rev.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baywhitaker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/main_brown-rat-rev.jpg 330w, https:\/\/baywhitaker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/main_brown-rat-rev-300x255.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The song is written using minor 6th <a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierguitar.com\/lessons\/acoustic-lessons\/django-gypsy-jazz-chords\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Gypsy Jazz chords\">Gypsy Jazz chords<\/a>, which I can&#8217;t recommend highly enough as useful ways to jazz up your songwriting and impress people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018 heavy rain flooded the river in Hillsborough where we live. Our house is on higher ground, so perhaps that was why a rat decided to come in our house. My daughter Holly was about 13 at the time and I was in the garden when she came out and informed me there was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[23,11],"tags":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baywhitaker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baywhitaker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baywhitaker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baywhitaker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baywhitaker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baywhitaker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/baywhitaker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baywhitaker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baywhitaker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baywhitaker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baywhitaker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}