{"id":2056,"date":"2010-11-15T14:47:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T14:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2010-11-15T14:47:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T14:47:01","slug":"how_could_this_have_happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/15\/how_could_this_have_happened\/","title":{"rendered":"How Could This Have Happened?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It occurred to me this morning that Van Halen’s immortal hit song “Jump” — which my Loyal Readers of a certain age will recall was released in 1984 — is now as old as Chuck Berry’s immortal “Johnny B. Goode” was the year “Jump” itself came out.<\/p>\n

I don’t know about you, but I’m having a hard time with that little factoid. How the hell have we all managed to live so long? I’m going to go lay down and ponder that in a minute, but first…
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It occurred to me this morning that Van Halen’s immortal hit song “Jump” — which my Loyal Readers of a certain age will recall was released in 1984 — is now as old as Chuck Berry’s immortal “Johnny B. Goode” was the year “Jump” itself came out. I don’t know about you, but I’m having […]<\/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-2056","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\/2056","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=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}