{"id":52,"date":"2010-09-20T13:59:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T19:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2010-09-20T14:00:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T20:00:43","slug":"talkin-bout-my-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/talkin-bout-my-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout My Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/80s.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53\" title=\"80s\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/80s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/80s.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/80s-300x296.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As card-carrying members of the modern techie generation, my wife and I work from home &#8211; sharing a home office, wireless broadband, and a Rhapsody account. Fortunately, we share a similar taste in music.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, Janet is obsessed with the soundtrack to Glee.<\/p>\n<p>I do enjoy the show &#8211; but I have to say that with each passing time we listen to the soundtrack, I am increasingly impressed with the music.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, I seem to be feeling existential joy at the fact that the vast majority of the music for the show comes from my generation.<\/p>\n<p>There are some exceptions (their version of Gold Digger, for example, which is significantly better than Kanye&#8217;s original), but most of their music is the stuff I grew up on.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really have a point here &#8211; other than my appreciation of the fact that today&#8217;s youth are still being exposed to the greatness of my generation&#8217;s music&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As card-carrying members of the modern techie generation, my wife and I work from home &#8211; sharing a home office, wireless broadband, and a Rhapsody account. Fortunately, we share a similar taste in music. At the moment, Janet is obsessed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,26,27,29,30],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mikeypedia","tag-80s","tag-glee","tag-music","tag-rhapsody","tag-telecommute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikeycunningham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}