{"id":1443,"date":"2008-06-17T15:13:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T15:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2008-06-17T15:13:25","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T15:13:25","slug":"just_like_ronnie_sang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/17\/just_like_ronnie_sang\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Like Ronnie Sang&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s currently 94 degrees in the SLC, and there&#8217;s a gaggle of bare-chested, tattoo&#8217;d, and be-pierced skateboard punks sprawled on the plaza outside my building, in the shade near the fountain. I think it&#8217;s safe to say that summer has finally arrived.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the arrival (which I&#8217;ll no doubt be cursing a month from now when 94 becomes 104), let&#8217;s have a listen to one of my favorite tunes, a golden oldie that always makes me think of summer for some reason, &#8220;Be My Baby&#8221; by Ronnie Spector and The Ronettes. The year was 1965, before most of us were born, kids:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oyGO5NRhzvk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ronnie was a sexy little thing, wasn&#8217;t she? In a mid-Sixties, big-haired sort of way. Not that there was anything wrong with that at the time.<\/p>\n<p>As a special bonus, here&#8217;s another summertime song that featured Ronnie twenty years after &#8220;Be My Baby,&#8221; Eddie Money&#8217;s &#8220;Take Me Home Tonight,&#8221; from 1986:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NbhXmSBlS_U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Talk about big hair&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s currently 94 degrees in the SLC, and there&#8217;s a gaggle of bare-chested, tattoo&#8217;d, and be-pierced skateboard punks sprawled on the plaza outside my building, in the shade near the fountain. I think it&#8217;s safe to say that summer has finally arrived. To celebrate the arrival (which I&#8217;ll no doubt be cursing a month from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","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=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}