{"id":139,"date":"2008-09-13T08:05:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T12:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iomaire.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2009-04-20T21:59:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T01:59:28","slug":"time-for-a-breather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/13\/time-for-a-breather\/","title":{"rendered":"Time For a Breather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m of that certain age to reminisce about bygone days when times were not as complex as they are today.  Everyone has favorite songs from their childhood and I have many.  From the wacky (Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley, Ahab the Arab by Ray Stevens, They&#8217;re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! by Napoleon XIV) to Country (most any cut by Patsy Cline), to folk (Kingston Trio, Peter Paul and Mary), to pop (Deep Purple by Nino Tempo and April Stevens, I&#8217;m Sorry by Brenda Lee, Don&#8217;t Make Me Over by Dionne Warwick) &#8230;.  Sure, I like contemporary music also, but I suppose the older music brings back associated memories of days gone by.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one of my all-time favorites, Unchained Melody, by the Righteous Brothers:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/t-idDbIfGvw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;showinfo=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/t-idDbIfGvw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;showinfo=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>That multi-octave part near the end just gets me everytime I hear it!<br \/>\nEnjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m of that certain age to reminisce about bygone days when times were not as complex as they are today. Everyone has favorite songs from their childhood and I have many. From the wacky (Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/13\/time-for-a-breather\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iomaire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}