{"id":436,"date":"2012-03-05T09:57:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T14:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=436"},"modified":"2012-03-05T09:57:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T14:57:04","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-54-scratchy-45-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/03\/05\/my-musical-evolution-part-54-scratchy-45-days\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 54 Summers In Vermont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve send it before and here I am saying it again. Some songs are linked to people. Some songs are linked to events. Some somgs are linked to moments in time. I mentioned earlier that after I finished 4th grade, I went to Vermont and spent the entire summer with my cousins at my Aunt and Uncle&#8217;s house. I spent the summer riding my bike on miles of old country roads. I explored acres of wilderness in the foothills of the Green Mountains. I didn&#8217;t see TV for nearly three full months.\u00a0 Always outside, always on the go. I lost a lot of weight and got into some serious cardio shape.<\/p>\n<p>As far as my musical evolution goes, the lifestyle there didn&#8217;t include records, TV or even radio in any quantity. Those things were present but compared to the mountains and rivers and freedom, they seemed so unimportant.\u00a0 Still there are a few songs that will be forever linked to this time in my life.<\/p>\n<p>Starland Vocal Band &#8211; <em>Afternoon Delight<\/em> If you don&#8217;t think that this is the greatest song ever. I will fight you. That&#8217;s no lie.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fz1ex78QeQI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gary Wright &#8211; <em>Dream Weaver<\/em>. This one, like <em>Bohemian Rhapsody<\/em> will comeback to me in the early 90&#8217;s courtesy of Wayne&#8217;s World.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8nn0L6055gs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the summer, we traveled back to Indiana across Canada camping on the shores of Lake Ontario. A soaking storm surprised us in the middle of the night. All along the way, this next batch of songs accompanied us on the radio.<\/p>\n<p>Glen Campbell &#8211; <em>Rhinestone Cowboy<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zZjxGJElYDk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nJames Taylor &#8211; <em>How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1Mp0rBHhXMs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nPaul McCartney &#8211; <em>Listen To What The Man Said<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OF2wmiE3yzo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe Captain &amp; Tenille &#8211; <em>Love Will Keep Us Together<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1G0sOA6hTg0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It was a great summer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve send it before and here I am saying it again. Some songs are linked to people. Some songs are linked to events. Some somgs are linked to moments in time. I mentioned earlier that after I finished 4th grade, I went to Vermont and spent the entire summer with my cousins at my Aunt &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/03\/05\/my-musical-evolution-part-54-scratchy-45-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 54 Summers In Vermont&#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":[249,262,315,468,579,597,625,726],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-musical-evolution","tag-gary-wright","tag-glen-campbell","tag-james-taylor","tag-paul-mccartney","tag-starland-vocal-band","tag-summers-in-vermont","tag-the-captain-tenille","tag-wings","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","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=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}