{"id":1477,"date":"2007-03-07T12:47:22","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T03:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2007-03-11T20:25:31","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T11:25:31","slug":"flower-mosaic5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/?p=1477","title":{"rendered":"Flower Mosaic #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More of the flowers found on island&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26787067@N00\/413251151\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/146\/413251151_a0c37186bd_t.jpg\" width=\"99\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Mosaic #5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Click on image to view large size)<\/p>\n<p>I recently had a young person at the bar (couldn&#8217;t have been more than 25 years old) ask me if I knew the music of The Ventures. Given, I was much older than the inquirer (and now that I think about it, who must think I&#8217;m ancient by his terms) and am familiar with the name, and probably even know a few of their tunes.  In reality, however, they were big a bit before my childhood musical influences (Beach Boys, Supremes, Smokey Robinson, The Monkees, Paul Revere and the Raiders, etc. of the 60&#8217;s) which were very much perpetuated by TV programing such as American Bandstand, Shindig, Where the Action Is, The Ed Sullivan Show, etc.  I simply replied, &#8220;No, I&#8217;m only going to be 51. I&#8217;m to young&#8221; (don&#8217;t get the chance to say that very often). Quite honestly, I don&#8217;t know who looked more perplexed by the end of the conversation, he or I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More of the flowers found on island&#8230; (Click on image to view large size) I recently had a young person at the bar (couldn&#8217;t have been more than 25 years old) ask me if I knew the music of The Ventures. Given, I was much older than the inquirer (and now that I think about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-68","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jawingon.jet-okinawa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}