{"id":6470,"date":"2020-10-30T07:12:39","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T14:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6470"},"modified":"2020-10-30T07:12:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T14:12:41","slug":"working-for-the-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/working-for-the-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Working for the Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6470\" data-postid=\"6470\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6470 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>I was out laboring outdoors under the morning sun, mowing here and there, hauling this and that, when Loverboy&#8217;s \u201cWorking for the Weekend\u201d jolted into my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why do certain songs such as this one materialize in my mind while performing physical labor? They certainly don&#8217;t show up during white collar work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started singing the song with gusto. It was like the goddamn Sound of Music and running down the hill! I surprised myself by knowing all the lyrics, not just the chorus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You wanna a piece of my heart?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You got it right from the start&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remembered my one and only personal moment connected to this song, a somewhat strange assignation with a girl named L 37 years ago! She went wild to the song, or insane might be a better word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWorking for the Weekend\u201d is a song without a shred of irony. Everyone is working for the weekend in America (although Loverboy was a Canadian band!) and when they survive to the weekend they are going to partaaaaaaaaay down\u2014hard! The song is a party anthem. It has a great bridge. It&#8217;s fun. It&#8217;s sexy in an 80s way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But why did it come to me while performing physical labor in nature? I certainly wasn&#8217;t working for the weekend, although the weekend was coming (it was a Thursday). What is a weekend? I haven&#8217;t known for years.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was out laboring outdoors under the morning sun, mowing here and there, hauling this and that, when Loverboy&#8217;s \u201cWorking for the Weekend\u201d jolted into my mind. Why do certain songs such as this one materialize in my mind while performing physical labor? They certainly don&#8217;t show up during white collar work. I started singing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6471,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6472,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6470\/revisions\/6472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}