{"id":5938,"date":"2015-04-07T08:05:47","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T12:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=5938"},"modified":"2015-04-02T08:17:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T12:17:06","slug":"i-am-loving-the-uk-1940s-radio-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/04\/07\/i-am-loving-the-uk-1940s-radio-station\/","title":{"rendered":"I am loving the UK 1940s Radio Station"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nostalgia has a strange way of making everything look prettier.\u00a0 For instance the music played on the UK 1940s Radio Station music and vintage radio shows from the 1920s 1930s 1940s<\/a> seems to me to be more good than bad.\u00a0 However, the music played on current pop rock stations seems to me to be more bad than good.\u00a0 I wonder if, 50 years and four generations from now, the music of today will also have the same type of soothing, safe, perfect in the background appeal to future listeners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nostalgia has a strange way of making everything look prettier.\u00a0 For instance the music played on the UK 1940s Radio Station music and vintage radio shows from the 1920s 1930s 1940s seems to me to be more good than bad.\u00a0 However, the music played on current pop rock stations seems to me to be more… Continue reading I am loving the UK 1940s Radio Station<\/span><\/a><\/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":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[111,207],"class_list":["post-5938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-music","tag-nostalgia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5841,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/05\/05\/clement-skitts-word-of-the-day-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":5938,"position":0},"title":"Clement Skitt’s word of the day","author":"leems","date":"May 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 \"He's real blowed-in-the-glass, you'd never smoke he'd go caterwauling and end up in monkey and parrot time.\" Let's dissect: Blowed-in-the-glass:\u00a0 a genuine, trustworthy individual (Wikipedia: Hobo Expressions used through 1940s) Monkey and parrot time: a lady left her favorite bird in company with a monkey and during her absence\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"clement001s","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/clement001s.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4802,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2013\/12\/17\/memory-palace-comic-a-gas-gas-gas\/","url_meta":{"origin":5938,"position":1},"title":"Memory Palace Comic! “A Gas Gas Gas”","author":"leems","date":"December 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I love history and legend in comic form, so the post:\u00a0 Memory Palace Comic! \"A Gas Gas Gas\" at Boing Boing completely captivated me.\u00a0 Wouldn't you know, it's based on a podcast:\u00a0\u00a0 the memory palace. 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