{"id":12144,"date":"2007-01-31T23:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/31\/steve-millers-the-pompatus-of-love-explained\/"},"modified":"2007-01-31T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T23:40:00","slug":"steve-millers-the-pompatus-of-love-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/31\/steve-millers-the-pompatus-of-love-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Miller&#8217;s &#8220;The Pompatus Of Love&#8221; Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came upon this old (1996) <i>The Straight Dope<\/i> article that finally has a definitive explanation for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/classics\/a4_065.html\" target=\"_blank\">what Steve Miller meant by &ldquo;the pompatus of love&rdquo;<\/a> phrase in the song <i>The Joker<\/i>.  The answer is kind of anticlimactic, unfortunately&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/music\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">music<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/movies\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">movies<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-3464130544166803067?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came upon this old (1996) The Straight Dope article that finally has a definitive explanation for what Steve Miller meant by &ldquo;the pompatus of love&rdquo; phrase in the song The Joker. The answer is kind of anticlimactic, unfortunately&hellip; tags: music movies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}