{"id":4584,"date":"2008-09-07T02:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T02:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4584"},"modified":"2017-11-05T16:31:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T22:31:04","slug":"twenty-years-later-a-cynical-musical-interlude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/07\/twenty-years-later-a-cynical-musical-interlude\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Years Later: A Cynical Musical Interlude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bangles &#8220;An Eternal Flame&#8221;, their biggest hit, released in 1988:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Sxf6Xd75yUo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Sxf6Xd75yUo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>By 2008, the poet-narrator&#8217;s &#8220;eternal flame,&#8221; whom she married in 1990, has left her after succeeding at his career (success being a district manager in a repair-shop-directed auto parts chain) for a 24-year-old whom he met at a coffeeshop in Indianapolis, IN, during a national sales meeting and who &#8220;rocked his world.&#8221;  In 2008, our poet-narrator has been single for 6 years and has begun dealing with empty-nest syndrome as the only child from her &#8220;eternal flame&#8221; relationship (born ahead of the marriage) has left to go to school in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s got nothing left, just a mother nearby who has given up trying to console her daughter and a couple of people whom she calls every couple of months, trying not to impose upon them but ultimately proving too morbid for a return to their early friendship, which she sacrificed to her husbands&#8217; interests (now, they&#8217;re married and raising children and don&#8217;t want to relate to her experience).<\/p>\n<p><i>Pleasant dreams.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bangles &#8220;An Eternal Flame&#8221;, their biggest hit, released in 1988: By 2008, the poet-narrator&#8217;s &#8220;eternal flame,&#8221; whom she married in 1990, has left her after succeeding at his career (success being a district manager in a repair-shop-directed auto parts chain) for a 24-year-old whom he met at a coffeeshop in Indianapolis, IN, during a [&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-4584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584","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=4584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17316,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4584\/revisions\/17316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}