{"id":24182,"date":"2019-01-27T13:36:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T19:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24182"},"modified":"2019-01-27T13:36:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T19:36:27","slug":"the-meme-makes-me-remember-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/27\/the-meme-makes-me-remember-when\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meme Makes Me Remember When"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m butchering an unrelated country song title, but I saw this meme on Facebook:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/homingpigeon.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>And I immediately thought about the song &#8220;The Bird&#8221; by Jerry Reed:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IXednSuS1lw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And I remembered when it was on the radio:<\/p>\n<p>It was 1982.  I was freshly ten years old; my parents were separated for probably a year.  My mother listened to country and western on the radio when we lived in Milwaukee before shifting to oldies when we lived in St. Louis, which explains my listening habits as I grew up (I didn&#8217;t learn I could change the station on the radio and did not have a radio of my own until I was about thirteen, which explains why I was so pressed to think of a pop song as a favorite song on a questionnaire when I was chosen as Student of the Week in eighth grade and had to go with &#8220;Ghostbusters&#8221; as both my favorite song and movie).  We spent a lot of time with the Odya boys, and I remember singing along with them when &#8220;The Bird&#8221; came on the radio.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I had heard the song between then and looking it up on YouTube to post as a comment on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>But now I have, and I feel all thirty-six years that have passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m butchering an unrelated country song title, but I saw this meme on Facebook: And I immediately thought about the song &#8220;The Bird&#8221; by Jerry Reed: And I remembered when it was on the radio: It was 1982. I was freshly ten years old; my parents were separated for probably a year. My mother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24182","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=24182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24183,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24182\/revisions\/24183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}