{"id":2435,"date":"2009-11-17T19:42:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T00:42:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-22T02:06:37","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T02:06:37","slug":"what-i-want-to-be-when-i-grow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-i-want-to-be-when-i-grow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"What I Want to Be When I Grow Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/395662175_294cd0f6ee.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"399\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Well, the InterWeb let me down on my search for a scan of the back cover of horn-rock band <strong>Chase<\/strong>&#8216;s eponymous first album. But the cover of their second LP, entitled <em>Ennea<\/em>, has a pretty clear view of the guy I thought looked totally cool, and who I thought &#8212; maybe, just maybe, if I kept my fingers crossed &#8212; I might grow up to resemble.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to tell you which horn-rocker it was; I&#8217;ll leave it to you guys to guess.  I&#8217;ll also take this opportunity to ask all of you: was there any particular popular music personality you thought you might, with a bit of luck, grow up to resemble &#8212; or perhaps even <em>be<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n<p>p.s.:  as you&#8217;re pondering this question, feel free to enjoy some of Chase&#8217;s (cough) fine, fine horn-rock at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaserevisited.com\/music.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.chaserevisited.com\/music.html<\/a>.  As an impressionable nine year-old, I remember being particularly taken with &#8220;Get It On&#8221; from the first album.<\/p>\n<p>p.p.s.:  hey, I was only NINE!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the InterWeb let me down on my search for a scan of the back cover of horn-rock band Chase&#8216;s eponymous first album. But the cover of their second LP, entitled Ennea, has a pretty clear view of the guy I thought looked totally cool, and who I thought &#8212; maybe, just maybe, if I <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-i-want-to-be-when-i-grow-up\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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\/2435"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}