{"id":76625,"date":"2021-02-03T05:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76625"},"modified":"2021-01-30T08:06:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T14:06:51","slug":"joe3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=76625","title":{"rendered":"<i>Sic Transit<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Stopped at Kwik Trip for a bathroom break on my way up North for the weekend. Store music was Me and Bobby McGee, by Janis Joplin. I looked around at the employees and the customers, and realized the song was older than anybody in the store.<\/p><p>Except me.<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Worse than that &#8211; a few years back, when my kids were at home, one of them was watching a music video.  It was some Australian boy band doing a cover of &#8220;What I Like About You&#8221;, the 1979 hit by The Romantics.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And it occurred to me &#8211; a band at that time (2016) covering &#8220;What I Like About You&#8221; would have been the same as a band in 1979 covering a song from 1942.   <br><br>Or, today, 1937.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stopped at Kwik Trip for a bathroom break on my way up North for the weekend. Store music was Me and Bobby McGee, by Janis Joplin. I looked around at the employees and the customers, and realized the song was older than anybody in the store. Except me. Joe Doakes Worse than that &#8211; a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76625","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=76625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76641,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76625\/revisions\/76641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}