{"id":14259,"date":"2012-06-28T13:26:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T17:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=14259"},"modified":"2012-06-28T13:27:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T17:27:43","slug":"baby%e2%80%99s-first-beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/baby%e2%80%99s-first-beats\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby\u2019s First Beats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, some friends and I are co-hosting a baby shower for a good friend of mine.  My friend is a dancer and avid music listener, and we frequently share music. Recently, she jokingly suggested that I should make her a mix to listen to when she&#8217;s in labor, and I was reminded of <strong>The Period Mix<\/strong> that Ashton Kutcher makes for Natalie Portman in <strong><em>No Strings Attached<\/em><\/strong>.  (Because I&#8217;m among friends, I&#8217;ll admit to watching this with Mr. Royale\u2014it had been a long week, we needed some mindless entertainment, and wanted to see what Ms. Portman had been up to after <strong><em>Black Swan<\/em><\/strong>.)  While the movie is pretty dumb, it does have some funny moments, and we laughed at this take on the oh-so-earnest, trying-to-woo-the-girl love mixes that appear in movies such as <strong><em>High Fidelity<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ueC6uWulAOU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I think that you all can help me create a mix for my friend who will soon be giving birth to a baby girl.  Could you provide some suggestions, from the most sincere (cut to scene of gazing at cute baby clothes while a single tear rolls down my friend&#8217;s face)  to completely ludicrous (the mothers in the audience know what&#8217;s ahead and all need a really good laugh)?  Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, some friends and I are co-hosting a baby shower for a good friend of mine. My friend is a dancer and avid music listener, and we frequently share music. Recently, she jokingly suggested that I should make her a mix to listen to when she&#8217;s in labor, and I was reminded of The <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/baby%e2%80%99s-first-beats\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[269],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14259"}],"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\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}