{"id":24322,"date":"2019-03-06T15:52:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T21:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24322"},"modified":"2019-03-06T15:52:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T21:52:25","slug":"he-used-to-do-the-young-elvis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/06\/he-used-to-do-the-young-elvis\/","title":{"rendered":"He Used To Do The Young Elvis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was at the university, I was a commuter, so most of my friendships developed with people outside the university.  I drew a number of them from the grocery store where I worked in a transitional (on the way down) corner of town.  Another guy named Brian started there a year or so after I did, and we got to be pretty good friends.  We spent a lot of evenings together cruising the local mall or gaming together.  We bought musical instruments together, a guitar for him and a bass guitar for me, and along with the third part of our triumvirate, we were going to be a band called Ghostriders.<\/p>\n<p>Until he announced that he thought of the band as a back-up band for his Elvis impersonator show.<\/p>\n<p>He was the young Elvis then, and although he got away from it for a while, he&#8217;s back at it, but he&#8217;s no longer the young Elvis.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qlZWw6OSLy0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>None of us are the young anything anymore, ainna? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was at the university, I was a commuter, so most of my friendships developed with people outside the university. I drew a number of them from the grocery store where I worked in a transitional (on the way down) corner of town. Another guy named Brian started there a year or so after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322","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=24322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24323,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24322\/revisions\/24323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}