{"id":29750,"date":"2022-04-15T15:46:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T20:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29750"},"modified":"2022-05-02T17:36:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T22:36:40","slug":"i-knew-which-of-the-three-he-meant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/15\/i-knew-which-of-the-three-he-meant\/","title":{"rendered":"I Knew Which of The Three He Meant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, on the way home from Maundy Thursday service, my oldest in the back seat said, &#8220;&#8216;Learning to Fly&#8217; is a pretty dope song.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coming down is the hardest thing,&#8221; my beautiful wife said, quoting Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s5BJXwNeKsQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He doesn&#8217;t mean Tom Petty,&#8221; I said.  I know the young man.  He did not mean the Foo Fighters either.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1VQ_3sBZEm0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>No, the young man, <em>my son<\/em>, meant Pink Floyd&#8217;s &#8220;Learning to Fly&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nVhNCTH8pDs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You know, it&#8217;s the oldest of the three; it came out in 1987 on <em>A Momentary Lapse of Reason<\/em> which I first got on audiocassette early in college.  Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker&#8217;s version came off of their 1991 album <em>Into the Great Wide Open<\/em>; I am pretty sure that I bought the song on a cassette single, but not the whole album.  The baby of the bunch, the Foo Fighters song, came out in 1998; I bought the CD for <em>There Is Nothing Left To Lose<\/em> based on this song.  They all came out within, what, eleven years of each other, each an aspirational sort of song about trying and succeeding.<\/p>\n<p>Do they even make pop songs about that any more?  Don&#8217;t ask me; I don&#8217;t listen to pop, and Brazilian death metal is not quite so aspirational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, on the way home from Maundy Thursday service, my oldest in the back seat said, &#8220;&#8216;Learning to Fly&#8217; is a pretty dope song.&#8221; &#8220;Coming down is the hardest thing,&#8221; my beautiful wife said, quoting Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t mean Tom Petty,&#8221; I said. I know the young man. He did [&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-29750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29750","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=29750"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29803,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29750\/revisions\/29803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}