{"id":1420,"date":"2008-05-06T08:53:48","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T12:53:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-05-06T08:53:48","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T08:53:48","slug":"music-bonding-with-normal-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/music-bonding-with-normal-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Bonding with &#8220;Normal&#8221; People"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NJeLyEMZFTM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>You find yourself with a fine &#8220;normal&#8221; person &#8211; be it at a family dinner, a work event, or what have you &#8211; who discovers that you&#8217;re a knowledgeable and passionate music fan. That person wants to talk turkey with you, excitedly asking what you think of <strong>Dave Matthews Band<\/strong>&#8216;s latest CD or whether you&#8217;ve got tickets for the upcoming <strong>Eagles<\/strong> reunion tour. You swallow hard, take a deep breath, and begin to respond to their questions regarding your tastes in music. With what do you lead? Which bands and albums do you talk about loving first, so that they can make some sense of what you&#8217;re into? Where do you draw the line in your record collection, what records are off-limits for discussion with a &#8220;normal&#8221; person?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You find yourself with a fine &#8220;normal&#8221; person &#8211; be it at a family dinner, a work event, or what have you &#8211; who discovers that you&#8217;re a knowledgeable and passionate music fan. That person wants to talk turkey with you, excitedly asking what you think of Dave Matthews Band&#8216;s latest CD or whether you&#8217;ve <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/music-bonding-with-normal-people\/' 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\/1420"}],"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=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}