{"id":1292,"date":"2012-07-24T14:23:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T18:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2012-07-24T14:23:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T18:23:16","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-156-space-mountain-the-end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/07\/24\/my-musical-evolution-part-156-space-mountain-the-end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 156 Space Mountain The End Of An Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My last night on <em>Space Mountain<\/em> was\u00a0 extraordinarily busy in the bar. The place was packed. The Movie <em>Midnight Express<\/em> was on the small screen and everybody had gotten into it. I was in a hurry to get our party started. All summer long I had gotten into the habit of creating an experimental drink in the bar and bringing a pitcher down for us to share.\u00a0On this night\u00a0I made a pitcher of White Russians because it was a favorite of Al&#8217;s and it was his 20th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>Giorgio Moroder\u00a0<em>&#8211; Chase<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Akyx5iu_z8Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWe had planned a party we called <em>Men In Flight<\/em>. It was a birthday party for Al who was turning 20. My youngest is 20 right now. I struggle to imagine Al being her age. Everything seems so different. Mark saw that this song was where the party started. No more teenage wasteland for Al. We went to lookout rock around 2 in the morning and climbed on to the roof of the inn to watch the sunrise. It was my last day on the mountain and I didn&#8217;t want to surrender a minute of it.<\/p>\n<p>The Who &#8211; <em>Baba O&#8217;Riley<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HcyuJTgKjZc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Later that morning I packed up all of my stuff. Matt and I walked around the top of the mountain for a while. I was still numb at the notion of leaving. Grandpa showed up and we put everything into his car. I had my tearful goodbyes to all of my brothers on the mountain and we were off. The last thing I saw was Matt sitting on the wall at the entrance to the lot. It would be the last time that I&#8217;d see them with a couple of exceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Living in Vermont without the serious responsibility of earning a living may have given it a mythical quality. The absence coupled with the passage of time may have raised that to the level of paradise. Our subsequent vacations there might reinforce that sentiment. Did I love every minute of living in Vermont? Realistically, I couldn&#8217;t have but it sure does feel like I did. I hope I didn&#8217;t squander any of it.  I hope that I appreciated my time in Vermont while I was there as much as I do now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last night on Space Mountain was\u00a0 extraordinarily busy in the bar. The place was packed. The Movie Midnight Express was on the small screen and everybody had gotten into it. I was in a hurry to get our party started. All summer long I had gotten into the habit of creating an experimental drink &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/07\/24\/my-musical-evolution-part-156-space-mountain-the-end-of-an-era\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 156 Space Mountain The End Of An Era&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[259,570,682],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-musical-evolution","tag-giorgio-moroder","tag-space-mountain","tag-the-who","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}