{"id":11,"date":"2022-03-16T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chellewritesthings.wordpress.com\/?p=6"},"modified":"2022-03-16T20:01:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T01:01:00","slug":"strange-things-i-remember-from-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chellewrites.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Strange things I remember from School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So as I was listening to music while recovering from surgery, I realized something. I have a lot of weird, random things that I remember almost vividly from school. They can range from songs we played in band class to random words that just stuck with me. Without further ado, here are some random things I remember from school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I remember in 5th grade, we had a competition to see who could find the longest word in the dictionary. Back then, I didn\u2019t have a cell phone \u2013 my classmates might have, but I just didn\u2019t. The word I found was pretty long, but just not long enough. If I recall correctly the winning word was Tintinnabulation, and the winner got to choose a pop from the teacher\u2019s lounge as a reward. Well later on in life, in 7th grade I believe, I remember coming across the word tintinnabulation again analyzing a poem. It means \u201cringing of the bells\u201d, and for whatever reason, this word has stuck with me for that long.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Another thing I remember from school is analyzing the song \u201cAmerican Pie\u201d in one of my English classes. I remember this vividly since it\u2019s a song I listen to and it\u2019s in my Spotify playlist. It\u2019s a good song, but have you ever thought of the meaning behind it? I remember discussing it and hearing the lyrics \u201cThe day the music died\u201d was in reference to a band dying in a plane crash. There is apparently no official determination what the lyrics mean, however. An interesting read about the song lyrics is on the<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230402055025\/https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-32196117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0BBC website,<\/a>\u00a0incase anyone was curious.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The next thing I remember is actually a song played in driver\u2019s ed. I remember the lyrics so well, and it honestly scared me a lot as a kid just learning how to drive. The song is shown below featuring a interesting set of lyrics and a unique music video.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZQ7oqmikZDQ?feature=oembed&#038;version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. One of the strangest things our school did during the year (homecoming and a dance in the spring that I forgot the name of) was a dress-up week, ending in a assembly at the end of the week usually. That\u2019s not the strange thing though \u2013 our school has actually done \u201cmattress races\u201d, which is where everyone in the school lays down on the ground, in order by grade, and chooses one kid to surf on a mattress. Teachers would flock the students on either side to make sure the kid didn\u2019t fall off or get stuck. And whoever was able to propel the mattress to the end the fastest would win. It was so cool as a kid, even now I don\u2019t understand why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. The next thing I remember from school was playing a song called the Great Locomotive Chase by Robert W. Smith. I remember it being a really unique song for the brass instruments, as it features the trombones doing a specific technique to sound like a train whistle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So as I was listening to music while recovering from surgery, I realized something. I have a lot of weird, random things that I remember almost vividly from school. They can range from songs we played in band class to random words that just stuck with me. Without further ado, here are some random things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,6,7,8,10],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life","tag-music","tag-reviews","tag-songs","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chellewrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chellewrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chellewrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chellewrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chellewrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chellewrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chellewrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chellewrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chellewrites.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}