{"id":3268,"date":"2013-04-11T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8105\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2021-12-04T23:40:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T23:40:18","slug":"clouds-in-my-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/?p=3268","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Clouds in my coffee&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">Ah &#8230;<i>&#8220;Clouds in my coffee&#8221; are the confusing aspects of life and love. That which you can&#8217;t see through, and yet seems alluring&#8230;until. Like a mirage that turns into a dry patch. Perhaps there is something in the bottom of the coffee cup that you could read if you could (like tea leaves or coffee grinds). Carly Simon 5\/17\/01<\/i>\n\n<i>&#8220;It came from an airplane flight that I took with Billy Mernit, who was my friend and piano player at the time. As I got my coffee, there were clouds outside the window of the airplane and you could see the reflection in the cup of coffee. Billy said to me, &#8216;Look at the clouds in your coffee&#8217;.&#8221; Carly liked the phrase and used that reference to an &#8220;illusion&#8221; to describe her dreams of having a relationship with the subject of the song.<\/i>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/img.discogs.com\/ud0ajqIzibcgI_NEnMwiKp_KDUo=\/fit-in\/600x593\/filters:strip_icc():format(webp):mode_rgb():quality(90)\/discogs-images\/R-7034666-1441537750-7980.jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr \/>\n\nLINK:\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlysimon.com\/music\/No_Secrets.html#.UWfaY0BCvaE\">\nCarly Simon Official Website &#8211; No Secrets<\/a>\n\n<i>This post was originally <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+shahadaabubakar\/posts\/95KUwRXhnoQ\">published<\/a> publicly on <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.google.com\">Google+<\/a> at 2013-04-12 17:49:07+0800<\/i><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah &#8230;&#8220;Clouds in my coffee&#8221; are the confusing aspects of life and love. That which you can&#8217;t see through, and yet seems alluring&#8230;until. Like a mirage that turns into a dry patch. Perhaps there&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6718,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3268\/revisions\/6718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}