{"id":9081,"date":"2017-07-31T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9081"},"modified":"2017-07-29T18:14:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T23:14:14","slug":"grandpa-tell-me-bout-the-good-old-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/07\/grandpa-tell-me-bout-the-good-old-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandpa, tell me &#8217;bout the good old days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While taking a short trip recently, I didn&#8217;t take the iPod and bounced around on the radio instead. I was delighted to come across a station playing REAL country music \u2014 the &#8217;90s songs I have had on CDs and my iPod forever.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-vn6QdqxK3g\">Don&#8217;t Take the Girl<\/a>&#8220;! &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8gSJtYae8bQ\">John Deere Green<\/a>&#8220;! &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aIq1LvzSLsk\">Should&#8217;ve Been a Cowboy<\/a>&#8220;! (And the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fRZAhgzyA-g\">title of this post<\/a>, from 1985.)<\/p>\n<p>Then came the bumper.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;They don&#8217;t make &#8217;em like this anymore. Classic Country, KMJM.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Class of 2021&#8221; T-shirt seen earlier in the day just wasn&#8217;t enough.<\/p>\n<p><em><\/em>Semi-related:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/selectall\/2017\/07\/apple-kills-the-ipod-shuffle-and-ipod-nano.html\">Pretty Soon, Apple Just Won\u2019t Make iPods Anymore<\/a> (<em>New York<\/em> magazine);\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/2017\/07\/165635\/apple-discontinues-pod-shuffle-nano\">The Apple Products That Defined Your Youth Are Now Extinct<\/a>\u00a0(Refinery29)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While taking a short trip recently, I didn&#8217;t take the iPod and bounced around on the radio instead. I was delighted to come across a station playing REAL country music \u2014 the &#8217;90s songs I have had on CDs and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/07\/grandpa-tell-me-bout-the-good-old-days\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9083,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9081\/revisions\/9083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}