{"id":1529,"date":"2008-09-05T14:08:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T14:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2008-09-05T14:08:15","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T14:08:15","slug":"those_summer_nights_when_we_we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/05\/those_summer_nights_when_we_we\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Summer Nights When We Were Young&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having one of those downer days when I&#8217;m feeling nostalgic, wistful, a bit melancholy&#8230; yes, I mean moreso than usual, you bunch of smart alecks! One of these days, I oughta&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, I&#8217;ve been thinking the last couple of days about relatively obscure songs that I used to like and haven&#8217;t heard in many years, trying to remember their titles and track them down in some form or another. Here&#8217;s one of those songs, Dennis DeYoung&#8217;s &#8220;Desert Moon,&#8221; which seems to perfectly match my mood today. I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen this video before now. It&#8217;s pretty cheeseball, what with the bad acting, occasional patches of banal dialog, and DeYoung&#8217;s purple big-block-plaid shirt (actually, I always liked those large-patterned plaids back in the day, but even I have to admit that it looks pretty dated in 2008). Still&#8230; I like the song, and on days like this when you can feel the summer heat gradually draining out of the world and autumn lurking just over there in the shadows, I like to listen to this sappy old stuff. Maybe you will, too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2cFOLFtw2Ic?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having one of those downer days when I&#8217;m feeling nostalgic, wistful, a bit melancholy&#8230; yes, I mean moreso than usual, you bunch of smart alecks! One of these days, I oughta&#8230; Anyhow, I&#8217;ve been thinking the last couple of days about relatively obscure songs that I used to like and haven&#8217;t heard in many [&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-1529","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\/1529","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=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}