{"id":4728,"date":"2017-05-31T06:07:48","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T12:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2017-05-31T06:14:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T12:14:18","slug":"oldies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2017\/05\/31\/oldies\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oldie #1: Oxygen<\/h3>\n

I’m in the office standing between two desks. Something makes me think of a song. I start to sing it in my lame, cracking voice, which for this song is just fine, because it always was a lame song.<\/p>\n

“Huh, huh, huh?” I ask Kyle.<\/p>\n

There’s no reaction. Not a surprise — he’s too young.<\/p>\n

I look over at Carl. Certainly he knows it. But there’s no reaction there, either.<\/p>\n

I pull up my phone, search for Love Is Like Oxygen<\/a>, and play it.<\/p>\n

“You remember that, don’t you?” I ask Carl.<\/p>\n

An uncertain look on his face. A bit of a frown. And a slight shake of his head.<\/p>\n

Then I made the mistake.<\/p>\n

“When were you born, Carl?”<\/p>\n

Ok. I see why he didn’t know the song.<\/em><\/p>\n

Oldie #2: Rock On<\/h3>\n

Alex texts us to tell us they are going to landscape the front yard.<\/p>\n

“We’re rocking the yard,” he says. “Do you want us to do it on your side of the driveway, too?”<\/p>\n

I give it some thought. I think about that thin strip of grass. About the mowing.<\/p>\n

“Rock on!” I say, with David Essex running thru my head.<\/p>\n

“Ok, rock we shall,” Alex says.<\/p>\n

“I like rocks,” responds the fair and industrious Trudy.<\/p>\n

I try again responding, “Jump up and down in my blue suede shoes,” without doubt the best ditty in the Essex song.<\/p>\n

And then I made the mistake.<\/p>\n

I search for the lyrics online so I can send the link. And I find them… on oldielyrics.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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