{"id":28543,"date":"2021-07-03T10:57:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T15:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=28543"},"modified":"2021-07-03T11:03:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T16:03:52","slug":"today-i-learned-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/03\/today-i-learned-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Today I Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/03\/how-richard-marx-became-an-unlikely-rock-n-roll-success-story\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Marx wrote the song &#8220;Dance With My Father&#8221; for Luther Vandross<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I had mentioned but apparently have not that this song touched me very deeply when I heard it earlier in the century.  I think I heard it first right after my first son was born, so I almost wept not only because I lost my father fairly early in my adulthood, but because I knew that someday I would leave my sons behind, and they would hopefully feel the same about me.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wmDxJrggie8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I listen to it at my own risk.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s from the 2003 album of the same name.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj00-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&#038;placement=B007V4QK66&#038;asins=B007V4QK66&#038;linkId=f42ebd3ae9bca7cce3d2cbbc918a131d&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=false&#038;price_color=333333&#038;title_color=0066c0&#038;bg_color=ffffff\"><br \/>\n    <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The article about Richard Marx touts his new memoir coming out, and it sounds kind of appealing.  I&#8217;ll have to watch for it.  Although I don&#8217;t tend to go through the show biz books at the church sales, so I&#8217;ll likely have to find it at a garage sale.  Although I don&#8217;t tend to go to garage sales very often.  Well, I have enough to read anyway.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/05\/songs-of-fatherhood\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Songs of Fatherhood<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Marx wrote the song &#8220;Dance With My Father&#8221; for Luther Vandross. I thought I had mentioned but apparently have not that this song touched me very deeply when I heard it earlier in the century. I think I heard it first right after my first son was born, so I almost wept not only [&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-28543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28543","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=28543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28546,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28543\/revisions\/28546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}