{"id":353,"date":"2009-05-19T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/05\/the-new-major-tom.html"},"modified":"2009-05-19T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T14:18:00","slug":"the-new-major-tom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2009\/05\/the-new-major-tom.html","title":{"rendered":"The NEW Major Tom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard the cover of the Peter Schilling &#8220;Major Tom&#8221; song by Shiny Toy Guns?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=r_gXXv0M2fE\">It&#8217;s featured in the 2010 Lincoln MKZ commercial on TV<\/a>.  I really like it. &nbsp;The You Tube below will play for you the whole thing.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Interestingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=opx5zEg9PJw\">last year Lincoln used a cover of the David Bowie version to advertise the 2009 MKS&nbsp;<\/a>(&#8220;Space Oddity&#8221;, which is my favorite of the batch, by the way).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>By the way, I&#8217;m not a fan of Lincoln automobiles and am not endorsing the product in any way. &nbsp;Just their choice in music to advertise their products \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"344\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VW0_kTYvARc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard the cover of the Peter Schilling &#8220;Major Tom&#8221; song by Shiny Toy Guns? It&#8217;s featured in the 2010 Lincoln MKZ commercial on TV. I really like it. &nbsp;The You Tube below will play for you the whole thing. Interestingly, last year Lincoln used a cover of the David Bowie version to advertise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[15],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-5H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":645,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/09\/major-tom-made-the-news-again.html","url_meta":{"origin":353,"position":0},"title":"Major Tom Made the News Again&#8230;","date":"04 September 11","format":false,"excerpt":"Canadian illustrator Andrew Kolb decided to illustrate a children's book with the story told in David Bowie's hit song \"Space Oddity\".Now, you should know why this is interesting to me....Mr. Kolb had put a link to the PDF of this book on his homepage earlier this week, but then he\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"books\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":441,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2010\/07\/funny-fireworks.html","url_meta":{"origin":353,"position":1},"title":"Funny Fireworks","date":"02 July 10","format":false,"excerpt":"This week I'm volunteering at a fireworks stand. 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