{"id":926,"date":"2012-06-24T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=926"},"modified":"2012-06-24T11:00:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T15:00:52","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-113-academy-days-there-are-three-girls-here-at-ridgemont-that-have-cultivated-the-pat-benatar-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/06\/24\/my-musical-evolution-part-113-academy-days-there-are-three-girls-here-at-ridgemont-that-have-cultivated-the-pat-benatar-look\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 113 Academy Days There Are Three Girls Here At Ridgemont That Have Cultivated The Pat Benatar Look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-927\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Pat Benatar Precious Time\" src=\"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Pat-Benatar-Precious-Time-300x295.jpg\" alt=\"Pat Benatar Precious Time\" width=\"300\" height=\"295\" \/>As we discussed, my introduction to Pat Benatar was Crimes Of Passion that I received as a Christmas gift. I back filled with <em>In The Heat Of The Night, <\/em>then went forward with <em>Precious Time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This album was good but didn&#8217;t quite reach me like her previous two. In fact, it seems that I liked each album a little less with the first two nearly a tie. While <em>Precious Time<\/em> had some good songs and feels like her most polished production, it just wasn&#8217;t as <em>Precious<\/em> to me.\u00a0 Before I blame the music, was it me? Did <em>My Musical Evolution<\/em> evolve away from Pat Benatar? During the <em>Academy Days<\/em> I would acquire 4 Pat Benatar albums. The last one <em>Get Nerous<\/em> I probably won&#8217;t be discussing because it came at the end of my Pat Benatar era and looking at the track listing, I really don&#8217;t remember playing it much.<\/p>\n<p>I may have mispoke. When I said end of my Pat Benatar era, I only meant that I didn&#8217;t listen to her as frequently. A year or two later and she would be all over the radio again and I&#8217;d eventually end up with 5 Pat Benatar Compact Discs. That said, <em>Precious Time<\/em> was the end of the honeymoon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Promises In The Dark<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7qUFZwJb9GA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Fire And Ice<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dsKCU5ll3D0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Precious Time<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N-LaM-yS28A?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>Hard To Believe<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AMWKq95JMWw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nDoes that intro kind of sound like <em>Men At Work?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we discussed, my introduction to Pat Benatar was Crimes Of Passion that I received as a Christmas gift. I back filled with In The Heat Of The Night, then went forward with Precious Time. This album was good but didn&#8217;t quite reach me like her previous two. In fact, it seems that I liked &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/06\/24\/my-musical-evolution-part-113-academy-days-there-are-three-girls-here-at-ridgemont-that-have-cultivated-the-pat-benatar-look\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 113 Academy Days There Are Three Girls Here At Ridgemont That Have Cultivated The Pat Benatar Look&#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":[16,460],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-musical-evolution","tag-academy-days","tag-pat-benatar","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","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=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}