{"id":19855,"date":"2024-07-07T11:18:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T11:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/?p=19855"},"modified":"2024-07-07T11:18:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T11:18:52","slug":"franks-wild-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/2024\/07\/07\/franks-wild-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank&#8217;s Wild Years"},"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<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tbFFs4HwD0s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>Well Frank settled down out\u00a0in the Valley\u00a0and\u00a0he hung his wild years on a nail that he drove through his wife&#8217;s forehead<br><br>He sold used office furniture out there on San Fernando Road and assumed a $30,000 loan at 15\u00bc%, put a down payment on a little two-bedroom place<br><br>His wife was a spent piece of used jet trash: made good Bloody Marys, kept her mouth shut most of the time, had a little chihuahua named Carlos that had some kind of skin disease and was totally blind.<br><br>They had a thoroughly modern kitchen, self-cleaning oven, the whole bit. Frank drove a little Sedan. They were so happy<br><br>One night, Frank was on his way home from work, stopped at the liquor store. Picked up a couple\u00a0Mickey&#8217;s Big Mouths, drank &#8217;em in the car on his way to the Shell station. He got a gallon of gas in a can. Drove home, doused everything in the house, torched it, parked across the street, laughing, watching it burn, all Halloween orange and chimney red<br><br>Then Frank put on a top 40-station, got on the Hollywood Freeway, and headed north<br><br>Never could stand\u00a0that dog.<\/p><cite>Tom Waits &#8211; Frank&#8217;s Wild Years<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well Frank settled down out\u00a0in the Valley\u00a0and\u00a0he hung his wild years on a nail that he drove through his wife&#8217;s forehead He sold used office furniture out there on San Fernando Road and assumed a $30,000 loan at 15\u00bc%, put a down payment on a little two-bedroom place His wife was a spent piece of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[73,157,75],"class_list":["post-19855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social","tag-listening","tag-music","tag-siggimus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcQPg2-5af","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19856,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19855\/revisions\/19856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siggimus.com\/siggimus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}