{"id":30147,"date":"2022-07-26T07:43:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T12:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30147"},"modified":"2022-07-25T16:55:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T21:55:22","slug":"a-couple-songs-for-those-of-us-feeling-our-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/26\/a-couple-songs-for-those-of-us-feeling-our-age\/","title":{"rendered":"A Couple Songs For Those Of Us Feeling Our Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, back about 1990, I would have been hard pressed to say I had a favorite New Kids on the Block song because in my neighborhood, the New Kids on the Block were uncool.  If pressed, I guess I would have said &#8220;The Right Stuff&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8217;ll Be Loving You Forever&#8221;.  I guess my neighborhood jumped off the New Kids on the Block train early, as they had a number of albums after 1990, and my younger cousin is still a squeegirl about them.<\/p>\n<p>But thirty-two years later, I have a clear answer: &#8220;Bring Back the Time&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ulJBJYie0l8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is also my favorite Salt-n-Pepa song, my favorite En Vogue song, and my favorite Rick Astley song simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Also, how about a selection from Billy Ray Cyrus?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RnMj1FI9Jpo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You know, I got a speeding ticket recently, and that should have made me feel young, but in the hair color slot, the officer wrote <em>BALD<\/em>.  C&#8217;mon, man, I am not completely bald&#8211;I have short hair, and it&#8217;s blond or maybe steel grey.  I mean, I would go full Statham but my wife is against it.  So I have not just gone full Statham <em>yet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And I am growing uncomfortable going to my mother-in-law&#8217;s retirement community because I&#8217;m often mistaken by other residents as being a new neighbor.  Hopefully, it&#8217;s just a matter of those ninety-year-old ladies thinking that anyone from forty to seventy looks young and not that I look seventy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, back about 1990, I would have been hard pressed to say I had a favorite New Kids on the Block song because in my neighborhood, the New Kids on the Block were uncool. If pressed, I guess I would have said &#8220;The Right Stuff&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8217;ll Be Loving You Forever&#8221;. I guess my [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30147","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=30147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30148,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30147\/revisions\/30148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}