{"id":1090,"date":"2015-07-31T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2015-07-28T10:36:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T09:36:30","slug":"song-of-the-week-alfie-by-dionne-warwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1090","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Alfie&#8221; by Dionne Warwick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Alfie&#8221; by Dionne Warwick:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KoNtj27a6Rk\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago I was looking after my friends&#8217; cat, Alfalfa, for a few days while I was staying at their place before they returned from vacation.\u00a0 I spent much of that time singing this Burt Bacharach and Hal David song, or part of it anyway, to the cat.\u00a0 When my friends got back, one of them said, &#8220;Oh, I probably should&#8217;ve mentioned that Alfie&#8217;s deaf.&#8221; It explained some of his weird behavior, and also made me feel like an idiot: I&#8217;d been trying to impress this cat with a song and he couldn&#8217;t even hear me. This is a picture of the deaf cat in question:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_2940-e1438076012569.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1091\" src=\"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_2940-e1438076012569-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2940\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_2940-e1438076012569-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_2940-e1438076012569-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deaf cat waiting and watching for his food to drop, <em>because he can&#8217;t hear it:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_2938-e1438076034855.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1092\" src=\"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_2938-e1438076034855-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2938\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_2938-e1438076034855-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_2938-e1438076034855-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Alfie%22%20by%20Dionne%20Warwick\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. 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