{"id":49184,"date":"2014-11-21T18:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49184"},"modified":"2014-11-20T11:42:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T17:42:37","slug":"on-a-winter-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=49184","title":{"rendered":"On A Winter Night&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;in the winter of 1980, on an evening where the air was cold and dry enough to tickle your nose a little, not a lot different from this one,\u00a0I asked a girl to come out on the floor near the end of the high school dance, for one of the slow songs.<\/p>\n<p>And to my shock, she said yes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And you could smell the heating in that old high school building, and the smell of a whole bunch of high school kids &#8211; flop sweats, cheap booze, cheaper cologne, and anticipation, as we &#8211; well, I &#8211; stumbled awkwardly out onto the floor.<\/p>\n<p>And the band counted four, and they started into a pretty faithful cover of this song:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/psv7uF7_A8c\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And for four minutes,\u00a0the world felt perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;in the winter of 1980, on an evening where the air was cold and dry enough to tickle your nose a little, not a lot different from this one,\u00a0I asked a girl to come out on the floor near the end of the high school dance, for one of the slow songs. And to my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49184"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49188,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49184\/revisions\/49188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}