{"id":22073,"date":"2014-10-20T12:56:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22073"},"modified":"2014-10-20T12:56:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:56:26","slug":"early-stones-or-jeez-im-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/early-stones-or-jeez-im-old\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Early Stones,&#8221; or Jeez, I&#8217;m Old!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BF5cOl9ti_Y\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhile flipping the radio dial between sport-talk radio ads on my ride home from work last week I landed on the opening measures of one of the most perfect (and perfect-sounding) songs in my world: &#8220;Beast of Burden,&#8221; by The Rolling Stones. The coming updates on the Eagles&#8217; (my hometown football team, not the band) bye week, following the commercial break, could wait. I had to listen to this soulful gem all the way through!<\/p>\n<p>At the song&#8217;s conclusion, the DJ came on and said, &#8220;That was some early Stones: &#8216;Beast of Burden,&#8217; off 1978&#8217;s <em>Some Girls<\/em> album!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>First, I felt like the DJ was an idiot. Then, I felt like I was 100 years old. Finally, considering the Stones have survived 36 years since that album, it could technically be \u00a0considered a song from their &#8220;early&#8221; period.<\/p>\n<p>I know the Stones are old, but jeez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While flipping the radio dial between sport-talk radio ads on my ride home from work last week I landed on the opening measures of one of the most perfect (and perfect-sounding) songs in my world: &#8220;Beast of Burden,&#8221; by The Rolling Stones. The coming updates on the Eagles&#8217; (my hometown football team, not the band) <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/early-stones-or-jeez-im-old\/' 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":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22073"}],"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=22073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}