{"id":17180,"date":"2013-01-21T12:25:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T17:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17180"},"modified":"2013-01-22T10:25:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T15:25:28","slug":"we-are-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/we-are-family\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TsZTEgUdmJo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>Today is my younger sister&#8217;s birthday (Happy Birthday Younger Misskirroyale!). She is off skiing and crashing parties at Sundance this weekend, and who knows what sort of music she may be listening to.<\/p>\n<p>But I can tell you a lot about what sort of music she was listening to when she was younger. As you may recall, I&#8217;ve been slowly carting my old vinyl from our parents&#8217; home to mine. And there I was faced with the harsh reality of her teenage purchasing interests and power. Granted, my taste was not fabulous, but I can take pride that my adolescent record collection did not include EVERY BARRY MANILOW RECORD. It has been pretty easy to sort out her albums from mine. Loverboy? That goes to my sister. Carpenters? Either my brother or sister. Led Zep: that&#8217;s mine. <em>Rumors<\/em>? Ha! I had traded that with her for Billy Squier.<\/p>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve become older, we still enjoy music and buy quite a bit of it. I can count on my sis purchasing any re-release of an &#8217;80s Top 40 collection. She enjoys Mr. Paltrow and band, finding his music relaxing. She has now started buying Opera.<\/p>\n<p>My sister is a mere 18 months younger than me. We both took piano lessons, ballet lessons, and were dragged to our father&#8217;s choral concerts. We listened to the same crappy Top 40 radio in the &#8217;70s. We love The Eagles. (<em>Hotel California<\/em> &#8211; hmmm, that&#8217;s hers.)<\/p>\n<p>Do you have similar head-scratching moments when you wonder, based on musical interests, how you can be related to a sibling? Granted, I love my sister very much, but I will not listen to a Barry Manilow record!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is my younger sister&#8217;s birthday (Happy Birthday Younger Misskirroyale!). She is off skiing and crashing parties at Sundance this weekend, and who knows what sort of music she may be listening to. But I can tell you a lot about what sort of music she was listening to when she was younger. As you <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/we-are-family\/' 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":[771],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17180"}],"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=17180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}