{"id":1287,"date":"2008-03-12T00:24:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T04:24:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-03-12T00:24:54","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T00:24:54","slug":"just-listening-to-some-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/just-listening-to-some-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Listening to Some Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1HwrsTR42A0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nAs my oldest son slowly approaches <strong>adolescence<\/strong> and I begin to get a taste of the moodiness and angst that&#8217;s characteristic of teens, I&#8217;ve been having a recurring vision of coming home from work one day to hear the stereo in his bedroom cranked up, with one of two albums blasting through his closed door: <em>Who&#8217;s Next<\/em> or <em>Dark Side of the Moon<\/em>. If you&#8217;ve learned anything about me, you can probably guess which of the two albums I&#8217;d feel more comfortable hearing him blast to calm his worried, confused mind. You can probably guess why. <em>But how &#8217;bout you?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Put yourself in my hypothetical shoes:<\/strong> Would you feel more assured hearing one of these albums blasting from his bedroom over the other?  <em>Why?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Better yet&#8230;As a parent, have you ever walked into your house to hear your child blasting an album that either <strong>put at ease<\/strong> or <strong>troubled<\/strong> your parental instincts?<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As my oldest son slowly approaches adolescence and I begin to get a taste of the moodiness and angst that&#8217;s characteristic of teens, I&#8217;ve been having a recurring vision of coming home from work one day to hear the stereo in his bedroom cranked up, with one of two albums blasting through his closed door: <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/just-listening-to-some-records\/' 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\/1287"}],"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=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}