{"id":15054,"date":"2013-02-04T17:37:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T01:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=15054"},"modified":"2013-02-04T17:50:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T01:50:23","slug":"in-memoriam-on-monday-watch-karen-carpenter-sing-rainy-days-and-mondays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-02\/in-memoriam-on-monday-watch-karen-carpenter-sing-rainy-days-and-mondays\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam on Monday:  Watch Karen Carpenter Sing &#8220;Rainy Days and Mondays&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We confess we were never fans of <strong>The Carpenters.\u00a0 <\/strong>Their ostensibly treacly songs always caused an insulin crash in our souls.\u00a0 But after <strong>Karen Carpenter<\/strong> passed away (30 years ago to the day, from heart failure attributed to her anorexia), we couldn&#8217;t help but go back and reassess the saccharine.\u00a0 And here and there, you could hear the pain in Karen&#8217;s voice.\u00a0 So on this Monday, though it&#8217;s not raining outside (in California anyway), check out Karen Carpenter singing one of their mega-hits, <em><strong>Rainy Days and Mondays.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>Sometimes it only rains within.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rainydays and Mondays- The Carpenters\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rmeFrNPGXlc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We confess we were never fans of The Carpenters.\u00a0 Their ostensibly treacly songs always caused an insulin crash in our souls.\u00a0 But after Karen Carpenter passed away (30 years ago to the day, from heart failure attributed to her anorexia), we couldn&#8217;t help but go back and reassess the 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