{"id":1358,"date":"2008-04-09T21:26:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T21:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2008-04-09T21:26:24","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T21:26:24","slug":"it_is_what_it_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/09\/it_is_what_it_is\/","title":{"rendered":"It Is What It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning as I was driving over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/images\/trax_pano_hdr_v1_tonemapped.jpg\">train station<\/a>, I heard the song &#8220;Jessie&#8217;s Girl&#8221; by my main man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickspringfield.com\/full\/rsmain.html\">Rick Springfield<\/a>&#8230; on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodj.com\/main.html\">KODJ<\/a>. That&#8217;s the local oldies station, if you don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>Then, coming home on the train tonight, I was serenaded by a couple of sweaty, pubescent twelve-year-old boys with dumb haircuts who were wearing baggy jeans and way-oversized hoodies covered in skulls. They were singing &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EpCcelpvkps\">I&#8217;m Turning Japanese<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I honestly don&#8217;t know which of these two events made me feel more over the hill.<\/p>\n<p>At least the kids weren&#8217;t being mocking or ironic &#8212; they were, in fact, behaving like this moldy chestnut was a really cool and funny song. Which it is. And at least Rick&#8217;s back on the radio <i>somewhere<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m rationalizing, aren&#8217;t I?<\/p>\n<p>Sigh. I&#8217;m going to go put on a sweater and lay in a supply of rocks for chasing the damn kids off my lawn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning as I was driving over to the train station, I heard the song &#8220;Jessie&#8217;s Girl&#8221; by my main man Rick Springfield&#8230; on KODJ. That&#8217;s the local oldies station, if you don&#8217;t know. Then, coming home on the train tonight, I was serenaded by a couple of sweaty, pubescent twelve-year-old boys with dumb haircuts [&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-1358","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\/1358","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=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}