{"id":2569,"date":"2017-08-23T12:08:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T20:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2569"},"modified":"2017-08-23T12:08:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T20:08:06","slug":"time-passes-fashions-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2569","title":{"rendered":"Time Passes, Fashions Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a comic strip for a while titled <em>Mother Goose and Grimm<\/em>, in 1995 or so\u2014and the title of the&#160; strip in question is <em>Vampire Coffee Houses<\/em>, and it shows a vampire is singing on a guitar,     <br \/>\u201cSunshine on my shoulder makes me shrivel up and blow away;    <br \/>&#160; Sunshine on my eyes burns through my skull&#8230;\u201d    <br \/>&#160;&#160; The joke is a twist on a popular song by John Denver which glamorized sunshine.    <br \/> Anyway, it makes me think of the transience of humor. Do folk singers still enter-tain at coffee houses, and indeed, are coffee houses still haunts for evening bohe-mians, or have they been too commercialized? Do people know about legends of vampires melting in the sun? (I think so for that one.) Or how many people&#160; re-member the songs of John Denver, who sang that song 20 years earlier?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a comic strip for a while titled Mother Goose and Grimm, in 1995 or so\u2014and the title of the&#160; strip in question is Vampire Coffee Houses, and it shows a vampire is singing on a guitar, \u201cSunshine on my shoulder makes me shrivel up and blow away; &#160; Sunshine on my eyes burns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-mandalas-doodles-scripts","category-events","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}