{"id":86033,"date":"2023-10-04T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86033"},"modified":"2023-09-18T08:52:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T13:52:15","slug":"soundtrack-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=86033","title":{"rendered":"Soundtrack, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The two weeks before I moved to Minneapolis, I wrapped up on my roofing and siding job.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a boom box to help while away the lonely hours of hammering and sawing.  To save battery power (four D batteries ain&#8217;t cheap), I usually tuned it to KFYR in Bismark &#8211; the only non-country music station in range. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This being the eighties, program directors were casting some <em>very <\/em>broad nets to try to figure out what&#8217;d latch on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this song peered out onto the radio a few times during those few weeks.  It&#8217;s by Jane Wiedlin, erstwhile rhythm guitarist for the Go Gos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jane Wiedlin - Blue Kiss\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AN9YbXt50Qw?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>There is no rational reason why this song, of all the hours of music I listened to on that job site that month, this one stuck with me.  You <em>never <\/em>hear it on the radio &#8211; ever.  I doubt most of you ever have heard it, or retained it if you did.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet this song, for me, <em>feels like<\/em> a hot day, smelling the hay coming in, watching the sun edging down toward the hjorizon.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t say all of these songs made sense.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two weeks before I moved to Minneapolis, I wrapped up on my roofing and siding job. I had a boom box to help while away the lonely hours of hammering and sawing. To save battery power (four D batteries ain&#8217;t cheap), I usually tuned it to KFYR in Bismark &#8211; the only non-country music [&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-86033","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\/86033","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=86033"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86047,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86033\/revisions\/86047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}