{"id":25699,"date":"2020-02-18T09:21:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T15:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25699"},"modified":"2020-02-18T09:54:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T15:54:53","slug":"in-their-defense-bostons-longtime-is-only-522","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/18\/in-their-defense-bostons-longtime-is-only-522\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Defense, Boston&#8217;s &#8220;Long Time&#8221; Is Only 5:22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SFGate.com has a gallery of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/entertainment\/article\/Longtime-celebrity-couples-Then-and-now-11403223.php#photo-4192215\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Longtime celebrity couples then and now<\/a>, although the pictures are actually presented <em>Now<\/em> followed by <em>Then<\/em>.  But I do not want to quibble with that.<\/p>\n<p>What I quibble with is the &#8220;longtime&#8221; designation.  Sure, some of the couples have been together since the 1980s or 1990s, which is qualifying as a long time these days (he asserted, limping after his most recent triathlon class).  But so many of the longtime couples here only became a couple during the last part of the Bush 43 administration.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that counts as a long time in Hollywood or in San Francisco.  However, I go to church, which regularly celebrates 50th, 60th, and 70th wedding anniversaries.  So 13th anniversaries of couplehood is <em>a good start<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Since I mentioned it, here&#8217;s &#8220;Foreplay\/Longtime&#8221; by Boston.  Which runs almost eight minutes, but the intro part (&#8220;Foreplay&#8221;) is almost two and a half.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TnwqUEelQjE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SFGate.com has a gallery of Longtime celebrity couples then and now, although the pictures are actually presented Now followed by Then. But I do not want to quibble with that. What I quibble with is the &#8220;longtime&#8221; designation. Sure, some of the couples have been together since the 1980s or 1990s, which is qualifying as [&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-25699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25699","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=25699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25701,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25699\/revisions\/25701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}