{"id":6335,"date":"2014-09-26T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=6335"},"modified":"2014-09-26T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T22:00:07","slug":"friday-evening-videos-summer-of-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/26\/friday-evening-videos-summer-of-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Evening Videos: &#8220;Summer of &#8217;69&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Loyal Readers know it doesn&#8217;t take much to get me feeling nostalgic, but I&#8217;ve been especially prone to that particular mood lately for reasons I don&#8217;t have time to go into right now. So for this week&#8217;s video selection, I thought I&#8217;d pull out a song that, perhaps more than any other I know, evokes what it&#8217;s like to be me when the memories come calling.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have any particular anecdotes related to this one, or really much to say about it at all, other than I liked it when it first charted way back in 1985 &#8212; I thought the guitar riff was cool &#8212; and as I&#8217;ve gotten older, the lyrics have only resonated more and more with every passing year. The video is a bit on the silly side&#8230; but then Bryan Adams never seemed terribly comfortable with the video thing anyhow. I dig his leather vest, at least.<\/p>\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen, from the excellent album <em>Reckless <\/em>(which didn&#8217;t have a single lame track on it and is<em> <\/em>celebrating its 30th anniversary this year!), I give you &#8220;Summer of &#8217;69&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eFjjO_lhf9c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend, everyone&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Loyal Readers know it doesn&#8217;t take much to get me feeling nostalgic, but I&#8217;ve been especially prone to that particular mood lately for reasons I don&#8217;t have time to go into right now. So for this week&#8217;s video selection, I thought I&#8217;d pull out a song that, perhaps more than any other I know, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friday-evening-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335","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=6335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}