{"id":1198,"date":"2007-11-21T22:53:15","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T22:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2007-11-21T22:53:15","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T22:53:15","slug":"crazy_at_the_bookstore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/11\/21\/crazy_at_the_bookstore\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy at the Bookstore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got out of work early today for the long holiday weekend, and found myself a little taken aback by the unaccustomed pleasure of seeing an entire afternoon stretched out before me with nothing on the agenda. I considered a number of options for what I could do with my free time. I ended up taking the light rail up to the U of U campus and meeting a buddy of mine for lunch, with a detour along the way to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookstore.utah.edu\/utah\/home.aspx\">U Bookstore<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t set foot in the Bookstore in years, possibly not since I graduated a decade and a half ago. The whole experience filled me with deja vu &#8212; it&#8217;s not much different now than in my own student days, aside from the flat-screen TVs and life-size <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Master_Chief_(Halo)\">Master Chief<\/a> statue in the lobby &#8212; but the most evocative aspect of the scene was the music playing on the PA system, a song I remember very well, &#8220;Crazy&#8221; by Icehouse. Here&#8217;s the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"408\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YMQwRL0EzW0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Two thoughts occurred to me as I wandered among racks of familiar-looking red t-shirts while listening to a band whose name I had to really work to retrieve from the memory banks: can I really have been out of school long enough for the music that was popular when I was <i>in<\/i> school to become &#8220;golden oldies retail ambiance&#8221;? And if so, is the Bookstore&#8217;s manager simply playing the same damn tapes he had way back then?<\/p>\n<p>On any other day, this epiphany would&#8217;ve made me feel positively ancient. Today, though, I was walking around free during my normal working hours, feeling vaguely like a kid playing hooky. And it was just plain good to hear this song again&#8230; and on that note, Happy Thanksgiving everyone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got out of work early today for the long holiday weekend, and found myself a little taken aback by the unaccustomed pleasure of seeing an entire afternoon stretched out before me with nothing on the agenda. I considered a number of options for what I could do with my free time. I ended up [&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-1198","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\/1198","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=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}