{"id":10770,"date":"2021-11-22T15:25:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T22:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=10770"},"modified":"2021-11-22T15:25:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T22:25:31","slug":"a-gen-xers-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/22\/a-gen-xers-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gen Xer&#8217;s Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a meme floating around Facebook earlier today that said something to the effect of &#8220;I was born in the 1900s, I&#8217;ve seen some things.&#8221; Leaving aside the depressing connotations of coming from &#8220;the 1900s,&#8221; as if I used to wear a straw boater and a fur coat while I motored about in my flivver, I was inspired to have a bit of fun with Rutger Hauer&#8217;s famous &#8220;tears in the rain&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TNbJ45yyVcY\">monologue<\/a> from <em>Blade Runner. <\/em>I&#8217;m rather proud of the result&#8230; and a bit wistful about that vanished world where everything was harvest-gold and wood-paneled&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m\" dir=\"auto\">I&#8217;ve seen things you people wouldn&#8217;t believe&#8230; television consoles the size of sofas&#8230; I&#8217;ve stood in shag carpeting and breathed secondhand smoke in public spaces&#8230; all these moments will be lost in time&#8230; like&#8230; dimes in broken payphones&#8230;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a meme floating around Facebook earlier today that said something to the effect of &#8220;I was born in the 1900s, I&#8217;ve seen some things.&#8221; Leaving aside the depressing connotations of coming from &#8220;the 1900s,&#8221; as if I used to wear a straw boater and a fur coat while I motored about in my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}