{"id":56,"date":"2005-09-07T14:09:37","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T21:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=56"},"modified":"2005-09-08T16:20:55","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T23:20:55","slug":"it-has-a-good-beat-and-you-can-dance-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"It has a good beat, and you can dance to it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/wp-content\/Bandstand.jpg' alt='' \/><\/p>\n<p>If you can look at the above picture and not get pangs of nostalgia, I don&#8217;t wanna know ya. I&#8217;m doing more research for work (again, I swear) and have been sifting through pictures of American Bandstand. I found this one and though it doesn&#8217;t help me with the project I&#8217;m working on, I laugh and get a little lump in my throat at the same time just looking at it. <\/p>\n<p>I was as much a geek as any kid, but I had a real thing for American Bandstand. When I watched it every Saturday, I&#8217;d ponder what outfit I would wear if I were ever lucky enough to boogie alongside all those cool teenagers. Would I go with my Rocky Mountain blue jeans and white frilly top? Or my yellow and white gingham skirt that looked like it had a petticoat underneath it? The jeans made my butt look good, but the skirt was so cute and cheerleader-like. Yes, even then, I was ass-conscious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can look at the above picture and not get pangs of nostalgia, I don&#8217;t wanna know ya. I&#8217;m doing more research for work (again, I swear) and have been sifting through pictures of American Bandstand. I found this one and though it doesn&#8217;t help me with the project I&#8217;m working on, I laugh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}