{"id":4806,"date":"2025-03-30T01:36:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T01:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/?p=4806"},"modified":"2025-04-29T03:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T03:37:23","slug":"time-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/?p=4806","title":{"rendered":"Time Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Time Travel... YES!! (with Steven Michael Burns)\" width=\"1290\" height=\"968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G_cc1Uq-IqA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When my daughters were little we watched Blue&#8217;s Clues with Steven Burns. On long days of watching a toddler and a baby, I found Steve&#8217;s presence oddly comforting, even though he was talking to a fake blue dog. I got the feeling he was a creative soul I could relate to. I mean, I can smell the freaks, right? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when I recently learned that Steven Burns had made music with the Flaming Lips, my favorite band, which was also his favorite band, and collaborated with Steven Drozd, it was like, &#8220;I knew it! I knew he was my kind of people.&#8221;  It&#8217;s like&#8212;&#8220;Yes, the universe makes sense!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listening to Steve do the voiceover for the Flaming Lips tune &#8220;Time Travel&#8221; on the &#8220;It overtakes me&#8221; EP is sort of like a time travel of my own. I had no idea in the late 1990&#8217;s when I was watching Steve cavort on the Blue&#8217;s Clues set that my future self &#8212;-a self with two grown daughters, not these two little moppets&#8212;-would be listening to this guy narrate a song that was as yet unrecorded, by a band I had yet to discover, but would totally overwhelmingly love.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my daughters were little we watched Blue&#8217;s Clues with Steven Burns. On long days of watching a toddler and a baby, I found Steve&#8217;s presence oddly comforting, even though he was talking to a fake blue dog. I got the feeling he was a creative soul I could relate to. I mean, I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diggin-it","rsfv-has-video"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4806"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4873,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4806\/revisions\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}