{"id":944,"date":"2026-08-03T15:06:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=944"},"modified":"2026-08-03T15:07:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T15:07:06","slug":"mm-1974-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2026\/08\/03\/mm-1974-3\/","title":{"rendered":"MM &#8211; 1974"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"572\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-945\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/08\/image.png 572w, https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/08\/image-245x300.png 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9bf599153e3c8f972c2c03928831aae2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5u-KWa3tL-0&amp;list=RD5u-KWa3tL-0&amp;start_radio=1\">.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Harry Chapin - Cat&#039;s In The Cradle (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5u-KWa3tL-0?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 class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7e4ac651328708ea719ac0894fa30934\">.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;Cat&#8217;s in the Cradle&#8221; is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Folk_rock\">folk rock<\/a>\u00a0song by American singer-songwriter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harry_Chapin\">Harry Chapin<\/a>, from his fourth studio album,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Verities_&amp;_Balderdash\">Verities &amp; Balderdash<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(1974). The single topped the US\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billboard_Hot_100\"><em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0Hot 100<\/a>\u00a0in December 1974. As Chapin&#8217;s only number-one song, it became his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_signature_songs\">signature song<\/a>\u00a0and a staple for folk rock music. Chapin&#8217;s recording of the song was nominated for the 1975\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Male_Pop_Vocal_Performance\">Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance<\/a>\u00a0and was inducted into the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grammy_Hall_of_Fame\">Grammy Hall of Fame<\/a>\u00a0in 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;Cat&#8217;s in the Cradle&#8221; is narrated by a man who becomes a father in the first stanza. He is constantly too busy with his work to spend time with his son, despite his son looking up to him and promising he will grow up to be just like him. When the son graduates from college, he declines his father&#8217;s offer to relax with him and instead asks for the car keys. In the final stanza, the now-retired father calls his adult son and asks to spend some time together, but the son is now too busy with his own work and family to spend time with his dad, and the father realizes his son has indeed grown up to be just like him.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . &#8220;Cat&#8217;s in the Cradle&#8221; is a\u00a0folk rock\u00a0song by American singer-songwriter\u00a0Harry Chapin, from his fourth studio album,\u00a0Verities &amp; Balderdash\u00a0(1974). The single topped the US\u00a0Billboard\u00a0Hot 100\u00a0in December 1974. As Chapin&#8217;s only number-one song, it became his\u00a0signature song\u00a0and a staple for folk rock music. Chapin&#8217;s recording of the song was nominated for the 1975\u00a0Grammy Award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}