{"id":1224,"date":"2008-02-14T09:56:35","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T14:56:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-02-14T09:56:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T09:56:35","slug":"true-confessions-lovely-associations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/true-confessions-lovely-associations\/","title":{"rendered":"True Confessions: Lovely Associations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aXT1aimjp2Y?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nAll right brave, hardened Townspeople, I am asking you to open your heart today, on <strong>Valentine&#8217;s Day<\/strong>.  I know with the rich experience with matters of love that diehard rock nerds like us typically have it might be hard to dig back into your memory to share over the question I&#8217;m about to ask, but as the Cub Scouts motto says, Do your best. Are you ready?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What&#8217;s the first love song you recall associating with an actual object of your desire?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This song may or may not be associated with your first crush, but it&#8217;s the song you first remember associating with any crush. Beyond listing the song, you may share as much as you feel comfortable sharing. But let&#8217;s respect that ancient flame and leave surnames out of it.<\/p>\n<p>The first one I can remember is Gallery&#8217;s <strong>&#8220;Nice to Be With You&#8221;<\/strong>. As I recall, the song had been out for 2 or 3 years, for those of you trying to guess Mr. Moderator&#8217;s age, on an afternoon spent hanging with the daughter of one of my Mom&#8217;s friends and realizing what the song &#8211; and my time increased interest in hanging with young Kim &#8211; was all about. We were at my grandparents&#8217; farm, and I was showing her the horses that my grandfather bred and raced. The song just came into my head. For all the things I forget on a daily basis, I&#8217;m surprised I remember this particular moment. Love songs from my early childhood that made a big impression on me in a merely conceptual way, such as The Beatles &#8220;She Loves You&#8221;, took on added meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All right brave, hardened Townspeople, I am asking you to open your heart today, on Valentine&#8217;s Day. I know with the rich experience with matters of love that diehard rock nerds like us typically have it might be hard to dig back into your memory to share over the question I&#8217;m about to ask, but <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/true-confessions-lovely-associations\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}