{"id":303,"date":"2006-12-02T15:01:26","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T19:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/12\/02\/if-i-had-a-song-that-i-could-sing-fo"},"modified":"2007-03-18T18:04:10","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T22:04:10","slug":"if-i-had-a-song-that-i-could-sing-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/12\/02\/if-i-had-a-song-that-i-could-sing-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"If I had a song that I could sing for you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d sing a song to make you feel this way:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sunshine over Harvard Square.\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2006\/12\/sunsquare.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I never learned to sing. I&#8217;m afraid it might be too late. But I think I can learn to take pictures. Leaving my apartment this morning, John Denver popped into my head. I remember Catherine telling me that during her years at Harvard she realized she needed help because she liked Barry Manilow and nobody else did. She and I have both come to terms with our common malady, but I hope <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsfreak.com\/j\/john+denver\/sunshine+on+my+shoulders_20073893.html\">John Denver<\/a> isn&#8217;t a sign of senile dementia.<\/p>\n<p>Coming across the Charles, the sunshine in my eyes almost made my cry. The sunshine on the water looked so lovely. It made me high.<\/p>\n<p>But if I had a wish that I could wish for you, i would not wish for sunshine all the while. I would wish that you also understand how Gene Kelly could sing in the rain. Or why I asked<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phys.uconn.edu\/People\/Faculty\/mannheim.html\"> Philip Mannheim<\/a>* to stop in the middle of Memorial Drive &#8211; seriously annoying 3 drivers &#8211; to run back and catch the fog on the river.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The DeWolfe Boathouse of Boston University in the for.\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2006\/12\/boathouse5.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beauty almost always makes me high.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>*Dude! We can get a better picture than that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d sing a song to make you feel this way: Sadly, I never learned to sing. I&#8217;m afraid it might be too late. But I think I can learn to take pictures. Leaving my apartment this morning, John Denver popped into my head. I remember Catherine telling me that during her years at Harvard she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1069],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-feeds-you"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}