{"id":2294,"date":"2009-08-22T14:47:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T18:47:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-22T14:47:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T14:47:26","slug":"the-most-satisfying-musical-comment-by-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-most-satisfying-musical-comment-by-m\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Satisfying Musical Comment of the Week by My Wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y9A5xnKeWiQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nOn our ride up to Maine via Boston, where my oldest son and I caught an awesome pitching performance by the Tigers&#8217; <strong>Justin Verlander<\/strong> over the Red Sox at Fenway, last Thursday, my wife told me some details of a dance party that neighbor friends had hosted a few nights earlier and that I had missed. My wife had a great time, even if the music selection was a bit more like a typical wedding mix than she would have hoped. She loves to dance. I feel incredibly self-conscious in my rare efforts at dancing (badly), but the party did sound cool: good company, a rented dance floor on the couple&#8217;s back yard on a beautiful night, etc. My wife reported that the dance party reached its peak during a run of <strong>B-52s<\/strong> songs. Then she unintentionally warmed the cockles of my heart with this report on the dance party&#8217;s low point:<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8220;Man,&#8221; she said, shifting gears, &#8220;you really can&#8217;t dance to R.E.M.!&#8221; The dance floor, she said, cleared out as soon as an R.E.M. song came on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our ride up to Maine via Boston, where my oldest son and I caught an awesome pitching performance by the Tigers&#8217; Justin Verlander over the Red Sox at Fenway, last Thursday, my wife told me some details of a dance party that neighbor friends had hosted a few nights earlier and that I had <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-most-satisfying-musical-comment-by-m\/' 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":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294"}],"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=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}