{"id":494,"date":"2007-07-02T12:35:37","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T12:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/02\/when-i-wanted-sunshine-i-got-rain\/"},"modified":"2007-07-02T12:38:10","modified_gmt":"2007-07-02T12:38:10","slug":"when-i-wanted-sunshine-i-got-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/02\/when-i-wanted-sunshine-i-got-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"When I wanted sunshine I got rain&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny how things pan out. While camping on Saturday night we were all sat around singing to country songs. Some <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Neil Diamond\" title=\"Neil Diamond\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil%20Diamond\" rel=\"tag\">Neil Diamond<\/a>s came on and I happened to mention that he wrote a few tunes for <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"The Monkees\" title=\"The Monkees\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The%20Monkees\" rel=\"tag\">The Monkees<\/a>. Despite delving deep into my brain I couldn&#8217;t remember which one, although it just happened to be one of their, if not the, biggest hit. No one could come up with a title and without access to the internet, the thought passed. Obviously it was of little real significance and I never gave it another thought. Driving in to work this morning, I thought that I must do a look up when I get to my desk, I turned on the radio around nine, tuning into The <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Chris Moyles\" title=\"Chris Moyles\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris%20Moyles\" rel=\"tag\">Chris Moyles<\/a> show, and <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Comedy Dave\" title=\"Comedy Dave\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comedy%20Dave\" rel=\"tag\">Comedy Dave<\/a> was just coming to the end of his &#8220;Tedious Link&#8221;&#8230; which just happened to be The Monkees: <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"I&#8217;m a Believer\" title=\"I&#8217;m a Believer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I%26%238217%3Bm%20a%20Believer\" rel=\"tag\">I&#8217;m a Believer<\/a>, penned by Neil Diamond! Ker-Ching!<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/technorati_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"15\" alt=\"Technorati\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Answers\" title=\"Answers\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Answers\" rel=\"tag\" >Answers<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Coincedence\" title=\"Coincedence\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Coincedence\" rel=\"tag\" >Coincedence<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Neil Diamond\" title=\"Neil Diamond\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Neil%20Diamond\" rel=\"tag\" >Neil Diamond<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"The Monkees\" title=\"The Monkees\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/The%20Monkees\" rel=\"tag\" >The Monkees<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Chris Moyles\" title=\"Chris Moyles\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Chris%20Moyles\" rel=\"tag\" >Chris Moyles<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Comedy Dave\" title=\"Comedy Dave\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Comedy%20Dave\" rel=\"tag\" >Comedy Dave<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"I&#8217;m a Believer\" title=\"I&#8217;m a Believer\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/I%26%238217%3Bm%20a%20Believer\" rel=\"tag\" >I&#8217;m a Believer<\/a><br\/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/wiki_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Wikipedia\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Neil Diamond\" title=\"Neil Diamond\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil%20Diamond\">Neil Diamond<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"The Monkees\" title=\"The Monkees\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The%20Monkees\">The Monkees<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Chris Moyles\" title=\"Chris Moyles\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris%20Moyles\">Chris Moyles<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Comedy Dave\" title=\"Comedy Dave\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comedy%20Dave\">Comedy Dave<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"I&#8217;m a Believer\" title=\"I&#8217;m a Believer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I%26%238217%3Bm%20a%20Believer\">I&#8217;m a Believer<\/a><h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s funny how things pan out. While camping on Saturday night we were all sat around singing to country songs. Some Neil Diamonds came on and I happened to mention that he wrote a few tunes for The Monkees. Despite delving deep into my brain I couldn&#8217;t remember which one, although it just happened to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/02\/when-i-wanted-sunshine-i-got-rain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When I wanted sunshine I got rain&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwn4r-7Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}