{"id":933,"date":"2010-11-18T09:02:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/?p=933"},"modified":"2010-12-02T16:09:37","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T00:09:37","slug":"tunes-my-husband-whistles-while-sleeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/18\/tunes-my-husband-whistles-while-sleeping\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunes My Husband Whistles (While Sleeping)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul\u2019s been doing a lot of sleep-whistling<\/a> lately. I wish I wasn\u2019t awake to hear it.<\/p>\n

I bring this up with Paul at dinner. Lots of whistling going on over there at night \u2013 what\u2019s up?<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the tune? He asks. Is it that Chicago song, 25 or 6 to 4<\/em>? Because it\u2019s been stuck in my head for like two months. I can\u2019t get away from it. I heard it in a store or in the background somewhere and it keeps coming back.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what song he\u2019s been whistling. I\u2019d never thought to listen<\/em>. Even though I\u2019m often painfully awake wondering why my melatonin isn\u2019t working or if I should take more magnesium or break down and take an ambien. Even if I did listen and even if I did manage to identify the song, surely I wouldn\u2019t remember in the morning. I\u2019d write something unintelligible on my notepad about sunrise, chocolate milkshakes and slurpees that made perfect sense to me at the time but would represent some unbreakable code in the morning.<\/p>\n

After dinner, I Google 25 or 6 to 4<\/em>. Did you know Chicago has produced 250 songs? I came across this special treat (below), and discovered that it\u2019s a song about staying up all night trying to write a song. When Paul hears it’s a song about a song, he hates it even more. He doesn’t like songs about rock and roll either. He’s like the opposite of post-modern. Pre-modern?<\/p>\n

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Anyway, I don\u2019t know if it’s the song Paul\u2019s been whistling or not but that doesn\u2019t matter now. My sleep-deprived brain has made it so.<\/p>\n

Maybe tonight I\u2019ll sleep. Or maybe I\u2019ll lie in bed with my finger on the button of my sound recorder. While I wait for the break of day, I\u2019ll think about how poignant it is that the song he whistles is about waiting for the break of day. Maybe if this continues and I keep recording, over the next few years I\u2019ll actually capture whistled versions of the whole Chicago collection. Once I have a handful of songs, I can make a mixed CD of sleep-whistling that I can give to him for our anniversary or his birthday or some other special occasion. He\u2019ll love it. They\u2019ll be like lullabies to him. Then other people will hear about it and I\u2019ll post it online, you\u2019ll be able to download it from this very blog. You\u2019ll have your own copy of his sleep-whistling. We\u2019ll expand to other classic rock bands by making him listen to classic rock right before bed. Hotel California<\/em> sleep-whistled or maybe Wake Up Little Susie<\/em>. Then, of course, it will become a massive internet sensation and he\u2019ll be famous and then we\u2019ll have a Twitter feed of his latest night whistles with millions of followers. And the whole world will wait every day for me to update his list of classic rock whistles. The CD will be produced by a big record label. Instead of Muzak, department stores will play Paul\u2019s night-whistles in elevators. We\u2019ll write a book about it. Someone will purchase the rights. OMG who will play me in the movie?!<\/p>\n

Or, maybe the insomnia will go away, I\u2019ll start sleeping again and Paul\u2019s whistling will rise up and dissipate into the black sky unheard. Wouldn\u2019t that be nice?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul\u2019s been doing a lot of sleep-whistling lately. I wish I wasn\u2019t awake to hear it. I bring this up with Paul at dinner. Lots of whistling going on over there at night \u2013 what\u2019s up? What\u2019s the tune? He asks. Is it that Chicago song, 25 or 6 to 4? Because it\u2019s been stuck […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pablo","category-parenting","category-popular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}