{"id":283,"date":"2013-10-11T22:38:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T02:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2013-10-12T08:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T12:14:00","slug":"albums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the Albums&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nOFua5dnkAU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After giving my daughter her record player that she requested for her birthday I was drawn in while testing it out. Everyone was out of the house and I listened to an entire side of a Gordon Lightfoot album. It really brought back memories of easier times.<\/p>\n<p>There is a tangible physical nature that&#8217;s hard to explain. \u00a0You held music in your hands. \u00a0Watched it spin and respectfully would not lift the needle to rush to the next track. \u00a0You would actually listen giving the song it&#8217;s due. \u00a0That&#8217;s what the artist wanted. \u00a0That went away somewhere along the line. \u00a0It was born of a slower time when we could spare the hours to share an experience never to be interrupted by the beep of a text or a ring of the phone. \u00a0I was young but do miss it a little. \u00a0Fire in the fall, thanksgiving dinners and easy times. \u00a0You only communicated with the ones you were physically with. \u00a0Engaged. \u00a0Not distracted. \u00a0Enjoying just being there, right then. \u00a0It was more NOW and less EVERYTHING ALWAYS.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?t=youtypguy-20&amp;o=1&amp;p=8&amp;l=as1&amp;asins=B00COSGOLU&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;fc1=000000&amp;IS2=1&amp;lt1=_blank&amp;m=amazon&amp;lc1=0000FF&amp;bc1=000000&amp;bg1=FFFFFF&amp;f=ifr\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After giving my daughter her record player that she requested for her birthday I was drawn in while testing it out. Everyone was out of the house and I listened to an entire side of a Gordon Lightfoot album. It really brought back memories of easier times. There is a tangible physical nature that&#8217;s hard to explain. \u00a0You held music in your hands. \u00a0Watched it spin and respectfully would not lift the needle to rush to the next track. \u00a0You would actually listen giving the song it&#8217;s due. \u00a0That&#8217;s what the artist wanted. \u00a0That went away somewhere along the line. \u00a0It was born of a slower time when we could spare the hours to share an experience never to be interrupted by the beep of a text or a ring of the phone. \u00a0I was young but do miss it a little. \u00a0Fire in the fall, thanksgiving dinners and easy times. \u00a0You only communicated with the ones you were physically with. \u00a0Engaged. \u00a0Not distracted. \u00a0Enjoying just being there, right then. \u00a0It was more NOW and less EVERYTHING ALWAYS. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/?p=283\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[2,52],"tags":[53,58,57,55,56,54],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3RysV-albums","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourtypicalguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}