{"id":1041,"date":"2007-09-27T10:24:23","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T15:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/wordpress\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2007-09-27T10:24:23","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T15:24:23","slug":"dont-let-your-meat-loaf-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/2007\/09\/27\/dont-let-your-meat-loaf-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t let your meat loaf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely think about age and getting older.  Well, actually, I think all the time about age, thanks to Ava, but I don&#8217;t usually sit around in wistful remembrance of my youth.  But today I saw something that made me feel old.  Meat Loaf is 60.  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meat_Loaf\">Meat Loaf<\/a>!  It hardly seems possible, but then he wasn&#8217;t the youngest star in the world when Paradise by the Dashboard Light was big on the charts.  Sixty years old.  Man.  In honor of the Loaf, I present here a video of his masterwork, one of the seminal performances of the music video age:<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"366\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/j0ns8t9iQck\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This was back when the Loaf was <em>the Loaf<\/em>.  Brother looks like he&#8217;s smuggling Oompa Loompas in that pirate shirt of his.  And could his singing partner have been any hotter?  It&#8217;s like she walked onto the stage straight from her victory in the World&#8217;s Tightest White Jeans contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely think about age and getting older. Well, actually, I think all the time about age, thanks to Ava, but I don&#8217;t usually sit around in wistful remembrance of my youth. But today I saw something that made me feel old. Meat Loaf is 60. Meat Loaf! It hardly seems possible, but then he [&hellip;]<\/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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9oLlO-gN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheplayer.net\/avablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}