{"id":1412,"date":"2022-10-05T08:56:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T14:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldhippie.com\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2022-10-05T08:56:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T14:56:57","slug":"we-are-a-generation-that-will-never-come-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/05\/we-are-a-generation-that-will-never-come-back\/","title":{"rendered":"WE ARE A GENERATION THAT WILL NEVER COME BACK."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A generation that walked to school and then walked back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A generation that did their homework alone to get out asap to play in the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A generation that spent all their free time in the streets with their Friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A generation that played hide and seek when dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a><\/a>generation that made mud cakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A generation that collected sports cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A generation that found, collected and washed &amp; Returned empty coke bottles to the local grocery store for 5 cents each , then bought a Mountain Dew and candy bar with the money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A generation that made paper toys with their bare hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A generation who bought vinyl albums to play on record players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A generation that collected photos and albums of clippings of their life experiences as a Kid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A generation that played board games and cards on rainy days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A generation whose TV went off at midnight after playing the National Anthem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A generation that had parents who were there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A generation that laughed under the covers in bed so parents didn&#8217;t know we were still awake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A generation that is passing and unfortunately it will never return no matter how hard we try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I loved Growing up when I did. it was the best of times. Join my group Positive and fun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A generation that walked to school and then walked back. A generation that did their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1414,"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}