{"id":539,"date":"2012-01-23T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoddsmustbecrazy.com\/?p=539"},"modified":"2012-01-23T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T17:00:08","slug":"seventy-six-trombone-coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/2012\/01\/23\/seventy-six-trombone-coincidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Seventy-Six Trombone Coincidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>(Submitted<\/strong> by reader <a href=\"http:\/\/theoddsmustbecrazy.com\/tag\/mary-b\">Mary B<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>My<\/strong> husband and I were just waking up on a Saturday morning. My\u00a0husband mumbled, &#8220;I am so tired, it would take seventy-six\u00a0trombones to wake me up.&#8221; He rolled over, picked up the TV remote, and\u00a0clicked on the television set at the foot of our bed. Booming out of\u00a0the TV comes the words and music, &#8220;Seventy-six trombones led the big\u00a0parade&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unbelievably,<\/strong> the television happened to be tuned to a\u00a0station that was airing the the movie, <em>The Music Man<\/em>, and he had\u00a0turned it on at the exact moment of the start of the main parade\u00a0scene.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We<\/strong> both sat bolt upright, looked at each other and gasped. We\u00a0had each thought that we had temporarily lost our minds. But no, it\u00a0had really happened. I still can&#8217;t believe it, but it happened.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>[EDITOR:<\/strong> What are the odds&#8230; that people would still be watching that movie after all these years? Actually, I bet pretty high since the licensing costs are probably dirt cheap since nobody knew how to write a good contract back then.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband and I were just waking up on a Saturday morning. My husband mumbled, &#8220;I am so tired, it would take seventy-six trombones to wake me up.&#8221; He rolled over, picked up the TV remote, and clicked on the television set at the foot of our bed. Booming out of the TV comes the words and music, &#8220;Seventy-six trombones led the big parade&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1413,16,1414,606,1415,1416,146,1417],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-76-trombones","tag-husband","tag-mary-b","tag-music","tag-parade","tag-the-music-man","tag-tv","tag-wake-up-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}