{"id":24499,"date":"2019-04-30T08:12:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T13:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24499"},"modified":"2019-04-30T08:12:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T13:12:38","slug":"the-only-styx-song-i-can-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/30\/the-only-styx-song-i-can-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Styx Song I Can Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, my beautiful wife owns a number of Styx albums, including at least one on vinyl, but I really don&#8217;t like many of their songs.<\/p>\n<p>But one, &#8220;Show Me The Way&#8221;, struck a chord with me.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LsYvuxmzxX4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It came out in 1990, when I was transitioning from an awkward high school student into an awkward college student.  I moved from small town Missouri back to the city of Milwaukee, and I certainly could have used some guidance.<\/p>\n<p>I still can.<\/p>\n<p>I often think of Styx as a seventies band, but this hit was from 1990.  <\/p>\n<p>Kind of how I think of the Rolling Stones as a sixties band, but they charted records well into the 1980s.  But the radio playlists really focus on the greatest hits of both bands, which are the early hits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, my beautiful wife owns a number of Styx albums, including at least one on vinyl, but I really don&#8217;t like many of their songs. But one, &#8220;Show Me The Way&#8221;, struck a chord with me. It came out in 1990, when I was transitioning from an awkward high school student into an awkward [&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-24499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24499","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=24499"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24502,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24499\/revisions\/24502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}