{"id":1261,"date":"2007-08-16T13:28:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T17:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/16\/more-news-to-make-me-feel-old\/"},"modified":"2013-01-27T06:06:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T11:06:13","slug":"more-news-to-make-me-feel-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/16\/more-news-to-make-me-feel-old\/","title":{"rendered":"More news to make me feel old…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The compact disc is 25 years old today<\/a>.\u00a0 And in the hard-learned lesson of “never let your ten year old brother buy your first CD,” The first CD I ever owned was “Pump”, by Aerosmith.<\/p>\n

And yes, I still own it – “Janie’s Got a Gun” is an awesome <\/em>song.\u00a0 I don’t care what anyone else says.<\/p>\n

(To be fair to myself, I didn’t actually “let” my brother do anything – the CD player was a gift from my parents for my 16th birthday, and so they had my brother give me a CD as a gift so that I’d actually have something to listen to).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The compact disc is 25 years old today.\u00a0 And in the hard-learned lesson of “never let your ten year old brother buy your first CD,” The first CD I ever owned was “Pump”, by Aerosmith. And yes, I still own it – “Janie’s Got a Gun” is an awesome song.\u00a0 I don’t care what anyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[20,19,3],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-family","tag-music","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-kl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6027,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/6027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}