{"id":206,"date":"2007-04-13T10:46:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T17:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/2007\/04\/13\/the-cicada-lover-song\/"},"modified":"2020-03-07T21:16:42","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T04:16:42","slug":"the-cicada-lover-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/the-cicada-lover-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cicada Lover Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the fun things about large 17-year cicada emergences like Brood XIII is the pop culture that emerges from the imaginations of inspired cicada maniacs: people write and record songs, perform plays and musicals, make independent films, paint paintings, wake websites, etc. <\/p>\n<p>Today we got an email from a song writer named Gregg who has a song called the Cicada Lover song that he recorded 17 years ago. It&#8217;s back, Cicada 2.0 style.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMy name is Gregory Paul. I thought you might be interested in this website: <i>www.cicadalover.com<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a song that I originally wrote and recorded 17 years ago. Kelly Clark sang it then, too. We were both just getting started in the Chicago theater scene. Since then, we&#8217;ve both gone on to do a lot of shows at various theaters around the city but this is the first time we&#8217;ve worked together again since the 1990 recording. Cicada Lover was played on the local radio stations then and was a popular number on the Dr. Demento show.<\/p>\n<p>We just re-recorded the new version (we call it Cicado 2.0) last week to celebrate the imminent return of the 17-year-locusts to Chicago.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the fun things about large 17-year cicada emergences like Brood XIII is the pop culture that emerges from the imaginations of inspired cicada maniacs: people write and record songs, perform plays and musicals, make independent films, paint paintings, wake websites, etc. Today we got an email from a song writer named Gregg who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brood-xiii","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}