{"id":4757,"date":"2007-06-05T01:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T01:19:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-04-04T14:58:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T14:58:34","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=4757","title":{"rendered":"The School Bus Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

The School Bus Song<\/b>
\nFour years ago, my summer basically revolved around driving. Mainly, I had to take our oldest to and from occupational therapy many times a week. So, my boys and I were in the van a lot. I also had another little one inside of me and, man, was he making me nauseous. We listened to a particular cd quite a bit that summer in the van, it was the one that we had received from Oxford American<\/a> magazine. Number 13 on that disk is Grits Ain’t Groceries<\/i> by Little Milton<\/a>. My boys love that song. And, the one that was inside me during that summer 4 years ago — who is now 3 — particularly loves the song. He calls it the school bus song. Now, I don’t know why it is the school bus song. Maybe he was listening to it one day when he saw a schoolbus drive by? I will never know. I do know that Grits Ain’t Groceries<\/i> is what he wants when he asks for the school bus song, though. In the words of my eight year old, “This song is genius.” I think so too. And, now I’ve finally reached the point where I can listen to it without remembering the nausea of 4 summers ago — at least most of the time.<\/p>\n

You can hear it here<\/a> on the NPR site. Just listen to the first 30 seconds of the interview and you’ll get a great sample.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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