NOBODY: Hey, what song’s on a continual, unstoppable loop in your head this week?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ME: <\/p>\n\n\n
<\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chorus, over and over. I’ve been dancing all weekend. On the inside (because introvert).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOBODY: Hey, what song’s on a continual, unstoppable loop in your head this week? ME: The chorus, over and over. I’ve been dancing all weekend. On the inside (because introvert).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-soundtrack"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2rDfa-iM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1274,"url":"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/?p=1274","url_meta":{"origin":1164,"position":0},"title":"Monday Writer’s Soundtrack","author":"admin","date":"September 29, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rumNQRfCoqw It's time for a Monday afternoon writing sprint! Here's this week's earworm. Young Galaxy is a electronic\/dream-pop band out of Vancouver. They remind me a little of the October Project if they'd gone with synths instead of piano\/cello. This is a relaxing groove and it always tends to put\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/?cat=34"},"img":{"alt_text":"turntable and laptop on a grey desk","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jcmckenna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/turntable-1109588_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jcmckenna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/turntable-1109588_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jcmckenna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/turntable-1109588_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jcmckenna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/turntable-1109588_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jcmckenna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/turntable-1109588_1280.jpg?fit=1200%2C720&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":451,"url":"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/?p=451","url_meta":{"origin":1164,"position":1},"title":"Old Soldiers — a Doctor Who story","author":"admin","date":"February 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"An Introduction I've been a fan of Doctor Who since I was five years old, sitting too close to the TV every weeknight at 7 on PBS (WGBH in Boston). At that age, it scared the ever-living crap out of me (Sarah Jane's android clone losing it's face, anyone?) but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Short Fiction"","block_context":{"text":"Short Fiction","link":"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/?cat=14"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jcmckenna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/doctor-who-3746155_640.jpg?fit=640%2C426&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jcmckenna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/doctor-who-3746155_640.jpg?fit=640%2C426&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jcmckenna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/doctor-who-3746155_640.jpg?fit=640%2C426&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jcmckenna.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/wave-gaaed654d0_1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1164"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1164\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcmckenna.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}