{"id":2534,"date":"2010-11-09T05:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T05:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/2010\/11\/09\/as-you-can-go-below-zero-hes-creating-iambs\/"},"modified":"2010-11-09T05:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T05:51:00","slug":"as-you-can-go-below-zero-hes-creating-iambs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/2010\/11\/09\/as-you-can-go-below-zero-hes-creating-iambs\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0&quot;as YOU can GO, beLOW zeRO&quot; \u2014 he&rsquo;s creating iambs out of words that don&rsquo;t naturally fall into that pattern: i.e., he stresses &lsquo;zero&rsquo; on the second syllable instead of the first, where the stress naturally falls.<\/p>\n<p>His pronunciation of &ldquo;zoo&rdquo; is one of the cooler things I&rsquo;ve ever heard: a &ldquo;z&rdquo; with the smallest possible nondescript little vowel syllable attached to it. There is no way on earth to communicate the musicality of the refrain that ends that song in print.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So I&rsquo;m finally getting around to reading this <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/therecord\/2010\/11\/04\/131063935\/listening-to-the-anthology-of-rap\" rel=\"noopener\">Anthology of Rap NPR<\/a> business, it&rsquo;s pretty hilarious and interesting. But yeah it&rsquo;s nice to see an outsider appreciate the brilliance of ODB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&quot;as YOU can GO, beLOW zeRO&quot; \u2014 he&rsquo;s creating iambs out of words that don&rsquo;t naturally fall into that pattern: i.e., he stresses &lsquo;zero&rsquo; on the second syllable instead of the first, where the stress naturally falls. His pronunciation of &ldquo;zoo&rdquo; is one of the cooler things I&rsquo;ve ever heard: a &ldquo;z&rdquo; with the smallest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerandrap.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}