{"id":19626,"date":"2018-02-27T09:45:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T15:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=19626"},"modified":"2018-02-27T09:45:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T15:45:01","slug":"36-years-later-brian-j-gets-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/27\/36-years-later-brian-j-gets-it\/","title":{"rendered":"36 Years Later, Brian J. Gets It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the local Jack station (a radio format term as dated as Adult Contemporary or Album Oriented Rock by now) plays old American Top 40 radio programs on Sunday morning, so I get a chance to catch old songs that don&#8217;t get a lot of radio play now.<\/p>\n<p>When Bertie Higgins&#8217; &#8220;Key Largo&#8221; came on, I thought, <em>not actually featured in the film <\/em>Key Largo.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ru2tsT32pHA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And then it struck me: He is singing about the movie <em>Key Largo<\/em>.  I hadn&#8217;t known that when I heard the song previously.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, when he sang about Bogie and Bacall, I thought about them in the context that I&#8217;d known them at the time I heard the song: From the film <em>The Big Sleep<\/em> and as a married couple.  I didn&#8217;t see <em>Key Largo<\/em> until much later.<\/p>\n<p>So all this time, I thought Bertie just wanted to sail to Key Largo, and that he was watching old movies like <em>The Big Sleep<\/em> with the woman in the song.<\/p>\n<p>How daft I am.<\/p>\n<p>Fun fact: I&#8217;ve actually seen <em>Key Largo<\/em> twice in recent years (meaning within the last, what, decade?).  The first by myself and the second with my beautiful wife as I&#8217;ve tried to convince her share in my enjoyment of old movies.  So we&#8217;ve watched two together, the other being <em>His Girl Friday<\/em> with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the local Jack station (a radio format term as dated as Adult Contemporary or Album Oriented Rock by now) plays old American Top 40 radio programs on Sunday morning, so I get a chance to catch old songs that don&#8217;t get a lot of radio play now. When Bertie Higgins&#8217; &#8220;Key Largo&#8221; came on, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19626","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=19626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19629,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19626\/revisions\/19629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}