{"id":2617,"date":"2017-09-23T10:04:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T18:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2017-09-23T10:04:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T18:04:59","slug":"popular-songs-1940-1980-plus-or-minus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2617","title":{"rendered":"Popular Songs (1940-1980 plus or minus)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that I have not kept up with modern music, with a few exceptions. I\u2019ve found the lyrics before that period a bit insipid and after that interval bewildering. That means I\u2019m dated, I fear. I\u2019m reconciled to that, though I am always open to being invited to reconsider a piece.<\/p>\n<p>I was looking over my song sheets, back from when one could not get them from the internet; back from a time when one used song sheets for singalongs. Who does that anymore? The closest I get to that is the Unitarian Church!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m proud to have hosted many singalongs in my home, at conferences, or other venues, with song-sheets specially designed for the occasion. I did this for summer camps for kids, too, and have a goodly collection of funny kids\u2019 songs. It\u2019s been like icing on a delicious cake. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that I have not kept up with modern music, with a few exceptions. I\u2019ve found the lyrics before that period a bit insipid and after that interval bewildering. That means I\u2019m dated, I fear. I\u2019m reconciled to that, though I am always open to being invited to reconsider a piece. I was looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-foolin","category-favoritethings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617"}],"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=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2618,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions\/2618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}