{"id":86030,"date":"2023-10-09T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86030"},"modified":"2023-09-18T09:29:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T14:29:11","slug":"soundtrack-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86030","title":{"rendered":"Soundtrack, Part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nothing about my first week in the Twin Cities ever smacked me upside the head quite as hard as my first rush hour.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I drove Cedar to 494 to try to get to 35W, to drive from Burnsville to Vadnais Heights for an interview.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And 494 during the morning rush hour is still a cardio workout. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back then?  In a barely roadworthy car, learning the few rules that the road had?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I flipped on WLOL.  This song started:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dire Straits - Money For Nothing (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wTP2RUD_cL0?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The buildup, in my memory, went hand in hand with the traffic, the weaving and ducking and lane-changing, built up around me, mirroring the mental frenzy I&#8217;d just merged into. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sure my blood pressure and heart rate still rise when this song come on, anywhere. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing about my first week in the Twin Cities ever smacked me upside the head quite as hard as my first rush hour. I drove Cedar to 494 to try to get to 35W, to drive from Burnsville to Vadnais Heights for an interview. And 494 during the morning rush hour is still a cardio [&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":[455],"class_list":["post-86030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitch","category-music","tag-soundtrack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86030","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=86030"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86058,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86030\/revisions\/86058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}