{"id":931,"date":"2009-09-22T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/09\/22\/its-spelled-b-a-y-l-a\/"},"modified":"2009-09-22T15:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T22:53:00","slug":"its-spelled-b-a-y-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/09\/22\/its-spelled-b-a-y-l-a\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Spelled B-A-Y-L-A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just to clear this up.  I know humans are easily confused.<\/p>\n<p>I am not a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B%C3%A9la_Bart%C3%B3k\">20th-century Hungarian composer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nor am I the leader of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B%C3%A9la_Fleck_and_the_Flecktones\">fusion-jazz musical group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And I am definitely not <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B%C3%A9la_Lugosi\">that dude who played Dracula<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My name is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Bayla<\/span>, and it&#8217;s derived from the Spanish word for &#8220;dance.&#8221;  The humans claim it&#8217;s because I have a special way of drinking water.  <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Whatever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/Bayla.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to clear this up. I know humans are easily confused. I am not a 20th-century Hungarian composer. Nor am I the leader of a fusion-jazz musical group. And I am definitely not that dude who played Dracula. My name&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cats"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}