{"id":9293,"date":"2015-04-16T17:37:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T17:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=9293"},"modified":"2015-04-17T00:22:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T00:22:58","slug":"when-was-doo-wap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/16\/when-was-doo-wap\/","title":{"rendered":"walking around hearing singing on all the corners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"192\" data-total-count=\"5174\">from walter kirn&#8217;s rumination on getting older, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/04\/03\/fashion\/mens-style\/how-i-came-out-as-gray.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;how i came out as gray&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"192\" data-total-count=\"5174\">After taking my order, one of the girls behind the counter asked if she could ask me something. Being asked if you\u2019re willing to be asked a thing is always a bad sign; I instantly stiffened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"277\" data-total-count=\"5451\">\u201cWhat?\u201d I grunted. The girl, who appeared to be 18 or so, followed with something like: \u201cIt\u2019s not that I think you look old or anything, but when was doo-wop, do you remember? Doo-wop music? When was that? The \u201960s? The \u201950s?\u201d It just got worse. \u201cThe \u201940s?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"229\" data-total-count=\"5680\">\u201cLate \u201950s, early \u201960s,\u201d I said coolly, wondering if I was being paranoid. Did the girl really think that I was on the scene then or did she merely find me professorial, a man who appeared to be rich in general knowledge?<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"101\" data-total-count=\"5781\">\u201cThat must have been so cool,\u201d she said. \u201cWalking around hearing singing on all the corners!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from walter kirn&#8217;s rumination on getting older, &#8220;how i came out as gray&#8221;: After taking my order, one of the girls behind the counter asked if she could ask me something. Being asked if you\u2019re willing to be asked a thing is always a bad sign; I instantly stiffened. \u201cWhat?\u201d I grunted. The girl, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9303,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9293\/revisions\/9303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}