{"id":10765,"date":"2012-01-14T08:49:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T14:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10765"},"modified":"2012-01-14T08:49:29","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T14:49:29","slug":"generational-skipping-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/14\/generational-skipping-stones\/","title":{"rendered":"Generational Skipping Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the other room, my children are watching an episode of The New Scooby Doo Movies<\/em> with Davy Jones in it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The program originally aired on December 2, 1972, so I probably didn’t see it when it ran first. A couple years later, I watched it with my mother and brother, and I remember distinctly the joke that Davy Jones makes “I’ve never sung for frogs before, just monkeys.” She explained that he used to belong to a band called the Monkees.<\/p>\n

Of course, the Monkees were most active between 1966 and 1968, when the television show appeared<\/a>, but a decade later when I watched the cartoon, Davy Jones was a has-been, if a little boy thought of such things. Regardless, he was off my cultural radar, if I had such a thing at about 10.<\/p>\n

Of course, a couple years after that, in 1985, MTV started airing the television program<\/a> and brought about a brief Monkees revival. The shows played on MTV and Nickolodeon, the band toured, and I even ended up with a greatest hits album.<\/p>\n

When the children heard that Scooby Doo was meeting Davy Jones, their only knowledge was of the guy with the locker. Although this reference precedes any of the pop-culture musings above since it’s a nautical term for the undersea place where drowned sailors go<\/a>, the boys only know of it from what they’ve heard about the Pirates of the Caribbean movie series.<\/p>\n

That’s a lot of generational history wrapped into a single episode of a forty-year-old cartoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the other room, my children are watching an episode of The New Scooby Doo Movies with Davy Jones in it. The program originally aired on December 2, 1972, so I probably didn’t see it when it ran first. A couple years later, I watched it with my mother and brother, and I remember distinctly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10768,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765\/revisions\/10768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}