{"id":8907,"date":"2015-03-27T12:01:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T18:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=8907"},"modified":"2015-03-27T16:11:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T22:11:10","slug":"because-someone-recently-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/?p=8907","title":{"rendered":"Because someone recently said"},"content":{"rendered":"
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George once said to me and I quote<\/p>\n

He said, “Never wait or hesitate
\nGet in kid before it’s too late
\nYou may never get another chance”<\/p>\n

“‘Cause youth’s a mask but it don’t last
\nLive it long and live it fast”
\nGeorgie was a friend of mine<\/p>\n

\u2014The Killing of Georgie, <\/em>Rod Stewart (1976)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I loved that song<\/a> from the first moment I heard it. It was on my brother’s album “A Night on the Town<\/a>,” which incidentally was my young adult self’s favourite ‘romantic’ album (it had a fast side and a slow side and featured Tonight’s the Night<\/em>…).<\/p>\n

\"Rod_Stewart_-_A_Night_On_The_Town\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The song as a whole is a lovely ballad about the narrator’s gay friend and his tragic end, but I’ve always loved the sentiment of the last verses…<\/p>\n

A 70 year-old gentleman said something similar to me yesterday. His comment was a bit regret-filled…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

George once said to me and I quote He said, “Never wait or hesitate Get in kid before it’s too late You may never get another chance” “‘Cause youth’s a mask but it don’t last Live it long and live it fast” Georgie was a friend of mine \u2014The Killing of Georgie, Rod Stewart (1976) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macblaze.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}