{"id":2293,"date":"2008-05-09T23:45:22","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T06:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2008-05-09T23:45:22","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T06:45:22","slug":"nearing-the-26th-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2293","title":{"rendered":"Nearing the 26th year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike <a href=\"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2022\">Alex&#8217;s predication<\/a>, I have not stopped discovering new music and started listening to NPR.<\/p>\n<p>For the former, because I am suddenly in a non-college environment, I don&#8217;t have the people constantly recommending me new music.  For the latter, I tried for one month to live the world of a true 25-year-old, but quickly returned to my naive, superficial self.  At least, I discovered and loved This American Life.<\/p>\n<p>I admit though that I hate the idea of standing in a concert surrounded by teeny-boppers.  I don&#8217;t like the pulsing music beating on the speakers and people shoving me from behind.  But every so often, like today, when I listen to the Pillows, I suddenly want to be there in the crowd dancing in my mini space in front of the band.  And shouting the words to every song\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbecause I know every song.<\/p>\n<p>The best concerts I have been to are: Beirut at Hertz Hall and Stars at Bimbos.  Especially the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, my current discovery is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootieusa.com\/bestofbootie2007\/\">Best of Bootie 2007<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u201da remix of the major songs from last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike Alex&#8217;s predication, I have not stopped discovering new music and started listening to NPR. For the former, because I am suddenly in a non-college environment, I don&#8217;t have the people constantly recommending me new music. For the latter, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2293\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}