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\n<\/p>\n<\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I woke up this morning and there was a whole new blanket of snow on the ground. <\/strong>Which I don\u2019t love! Here in March! But I guess it <em>is<\/em> still technically winter for another three weeks, and also, it made this particular cover song I was working on more appropriate. The original is from Fountains of Wayne, which is best known for \u201cStacy\u2019s Mom,\u201d although songs like this one are rather more in line with the songwriting typical of the group. This is one of my favorites, and a little bit of a deep cut. But deep cuts can be good sometimes. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014 JS<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-21793-59652-69a63230f2f57\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/?ver=15.6-beta#blog_id=21793&post_id=59652&origin=whatever.scalzi.com&obj_id=21793-59652-69a63230f2f57\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-21793-59652-69a63230f2f57\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading…<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/div>\n<p>\t<!-- BEGIN .postmeta --><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-navigation\">\n<div class=\"previous-post\">\u2190 <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2026\/02\/27\/sampling-some-smackin-sunflower-seeds\/\" rel=\"prev\">Sampling Some Smackin\u2019 Sunflower Seeds<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<p><!-- .post-navigation --><\/p>\n<p><!-- #comments --><\/p>\n<p><!-- END .postarea -->\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source whatever.scalzi.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on March 2, 2026 \u00a0\u00a0 Posted by John Scalzi \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 I woke up this morning and there was a whole new blanket of snow on the ground. Which I don\u2019t love! Here in March! But I guess it is still technically winter for another three weeks, and also, it made this particular cover […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2309465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2309464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/New-Cover-Valley-Winter-Song.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2309464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2309466,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2309464\/revisions\/2309466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2309465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2309464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2309464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2309464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}