{"id":190874,"date":"2009-10-18T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/18\/you-mean-they-were-still-playing\/"},"modified":"2009-10-18T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T16:55:00","slug":"you-mean-they-were-still-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/10\/18\/you-mean-they-were-still-playing\/","title":{"rendered":"You Mean They Were Still Playing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, it appears that the band A-Ha is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2009\/oct\/16\/a-ha-to-split\">splitting up after 25 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I was never much on their big hit as a song, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Take Me On<\/span>, but the video was great:<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:uma:video:mtv.com:7846\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"configParams=vid%3D7846%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Amtv.com%3A7846\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" base=\".\" width=\"512\" height=\"319\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>I listened to the album <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Hunting High and Low<\/span>, which is where the song came from when I was borrowing a car.  The rest of the songs seemed a lot better, and had more substance<\/p>\n<p>Go figure.<\/p>\n<p>One other note, the actress in this is the quintessential big hair 1980s chick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it appears that the band A-Ha is splitting up after 25 years. I was never much on their big hit as a song, Take Me On, but the video was great: I listened to the album Hunting High and Low, which is where the song came from when I was borrowing a car. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1136,1137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}