{"id":242,"date":"2006-05-11T09:05:16","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T09:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/11\/greatest-since-when\/"},"modified":"2006-05-11T09:05:16","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T09:05:16","slug":"greatest-since-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/11\/greatest-since-when\/","title":{"rendered":"Greatest Since When?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/inverse.physics.berkeley.edu\/archives\/001686.html\">Arcane Gazebo<\/a>, a pointer to the <cite>Blender<\/cite> list of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blender.com\/guide\/articles.aspx?ID=1761\">The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born<\/a>.&#8221; At least, it was a pointer to that article last night&#8211; all Blender links seem to be 404ing this morning, which also means I can&#8217;t discuss the songs in detail.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s fine, actually, as the list is very rap-centric, and thus I don&#8217;t really recognize a lot of the Top 50. That&#8217;s probably a fair reflection of modern pop music, which just drives home the degree to which I&#8217;m out of touch.<\/p>\n<p>My real purpose in posting is to grumble about the fact that the starting date for the list is 1980. Which means the presumptive birth date for people reading stuff on the web is now nine years after my own birth date.<\/p>\n<p>Stupid kids these days, making me feel old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Arcane Gazebo, a pointer to the Blender list of &#8220;The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born.&#8221; At least, it was a pointer to that article last night&#8211; all Blender links seem to be 404ing this morning, which also means I can&#8217;t discuss the songs in detail. That&#8217;s fine, actually, as the list is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/11\/greatest-since-when\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Greatest Since When?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}