{"id":1588,"date":"2008-08-03T01:27:27","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T05:27:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-08-03T01:27:27","modified_gmt":"2008-08-03T01:27:27","slug":"bar-mitzvah-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/bar-mitzvah-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar Mitzvah Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wAw_gJ6wS44?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhile away I read in a 2-week old <em>People<\/em> magazine that was left in our cabin by some previous visitors that a 30-year anniversary edition of <strong>Billy Joel<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>The Stranger<\/em> was recently issued, probably with bonus tracks and other stuff that would make revisiting the original album even more painful. Talk about soundtracks to my high school years! That album covered another annoying undercurrent, and I was reminded of <em>The Stranger<\/em>&#8216;s prevalence at social functions like school dances, weddings, and &#8211; I suspect &#8211; <strong>Bar Mitzvahs<\/strong>. My prime Bar Mitzvah-attending years (as a peer, that is, not a friend of the parents) predated Joel&#8217;s breakthrough album, but I feel safe in suggesting that Billy Joel is the king of Bar Mitzvah Rock. I <em>could<\/em> be wrong &#8211; who&#8217;s more deserving of Bar Mitzvah Rock Royalty? <em>What artists or songs make you relive Bar Mitzvahs from your past?<\/em> (For those of you who&#8217;ve not had the honor to attend a Bar or Bat Mitzvah, feel free to substitute another coming of age religious event.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While away I read in a 2-week old People magazine that was left in our cabin by some previous visitors that a 30-year anniversary edition of Billy Joel&#8216;s The Stranger was recently issued, probably with bonus tracks and other stuff that would make revisiting the original album even more painful. Talk about soundtracks to my <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/bar-mitzvah-rock\/' 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\/1588"}],"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=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}