{"id":1465,"date":"2014-08-22T14:31:30","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T22:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2014-08-22T14:31:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T22:31:30","slug":"music-friday-depressing-future-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-depressing-future-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Friday &#8211; Depressing Future Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/music-friday-depressing-future-edition\/\" data-text=\"Music Friday &#038;%238211; Depressing Future Edition\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>I got the idea for this Music Friday post when I was dazzling (yes, <em>dazzling!<\/em> *eyeroll*) some people with my vast music knowledge by remembering the name of the artists that recorded this song in 1969. \u00a0That is, it was recorded in 1969 not that I remembered it in 1969. \u00a0Anyhoo&#8230;the song charted at #1 in the US and the UK in 1969. \u00a0It was their only song to break the top 100 in either country, so I suppose you could call them a one hit wonder. \u00a0The artist&#8217;s name that I remembered? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zager_and_evans\" target=\"_blank\">Zager and Evans<\/a>. \u00a0And the song in question \u00a0is <em>In The Year 2525. \u00a0<\/em>1969 was not neccessarily the happiest of times &#8211; there was an unpopular war ongoing in Viet Nam, Environmentalism was becoming a thing and among the youth and the popular culture there was a feeling that Mankind was a scourge on the earth and was in a self-destructive spiral. \u00a0So it was an attitude of cynicism and despair that spawned this upbeat little ditty:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N1mWvRjzgiY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Is this world just a big treadmill? \u00a0I does go round and round. \u00a0God: (as if teaching us our multiplication tables) You will keep doing this until you get it right!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>&#8220;He&#8217;ll either say &#8216;I&#8217;m pleased where man has been&#8217; or tear it down and start again&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yet&#8230; there seems to be little ray of hope at the end. \u00a0Then after it&#8217;s finished, it starts all over again. \u00a0Maybe it was \u00a0just a dream. \u00a0 A nightmare? \u00a0We made it what it was. \u00a0And we can decide what it will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet I got the idea for this Music Friday post when I was dazzling (yes, dazzling! *eyeroll*) some people with my vast music knowledge by remembering the name of the artists that recorded this song in 1969. \u00a0That is, it was recorded in 1969 not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}