{"id":9949,"date":"2020-02-19T01:03:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T06:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9949"},"modified":"2020-02-19T05:42:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T10:42:30","slug":"midweek-music-youre-still-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=9949","title":{"rendered":"midweek music: &#8216;you&#8217;re still you&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EHVJBnT8lEs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You may or may not remember this tv show, <em>Ally McBeal<\/em>, from the turn of the century. It was a bunch of young, mostly well-intentioned Gen X lawyers who were gifted in the courtroom, but a hot mess in their personal lives. 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