{"id":6633,"date":"2020-12-23T07:12:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T15:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=6633"},"modified":"2020-12-23T07:12:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T15:12:38","slug":"a-thompson-twins-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/a-thompson-twins-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thompson Twins Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-6633\" data-postid=\"6633\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-6633 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n\n\n<p>I was paying for groceries at the counter. A friendly female checker was ringing me up. A song was playing from the rafters. It was the Thompson Twins&#8217; \u201cKing for a Day.\u201d I laughed. I hadn&#8217;t heard the song in 35 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Thompson Twins for chrissakes! Two or three English hit wonders from the MTV 80s! Other hits? Lies? Hold Me Now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked the clerk if she knew the group. She was a decade younger than the birth of grunge. She had no idea who the Thompson Twins were. That&#8217;s probably a good thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suggested she look them up on YouTube for the costumes and hair alone. She said she would. I told her they were not twins and there were three members of the group. She didn&#8217;t get it. Neither did I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A man behind me ordering lotto tickets called out. \u201cI saw the Thompson Twins in El Cortez, California.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I whipped around and asked him how the show was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said it was good for what it was. I think that was a compliment.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was paying for groceries at the counter. A friendly female checker was ringing me up. A song was playing from the rafters. It was the Thompson Twins&#8217; \u201cKing for a Day.\u201d I laughed. I hadn&#8217;t heard the song in 35 years. The Thompson Twins for chrissakes! Two or three English hit wonders from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6633","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\/6633","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=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6635,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions\/6635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}