{"id":997,"date":"2021-12-19T10:30:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-19T16:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oldhippie.com\/?p=997"},"modified":"2021-12-19T10:35:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T16:35:20","slug":"we-are-a-generation-who-will-never-come-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/19\/we-are-a-generation-who-will-never-come-back\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are A Generation Who Will Never Come Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>A generation that walked to school and then walked back.<\/li><li>A generation that did their homework alone to get out asap to play in the street.<\/li><li>A generation that spent all their free time in the streets with their Friends. A generation that played hide and seek when dark.<\/li><li>A generation that made mud cakes.<\/li><li>A generation that collected sports cards.<\/li><li>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. <\/li><li>A generation that made paper toys with their bare hands.<\/li><li>A generation who bought vinyl albums to play on record players.<\/li><li>A generation that collected photos and albums of clippings of their life experiences as a Kid. A generation that played board games and cards on rainy days.<\/li><li>A generation whose TV went off at midnight after playing the National Anthem.<\/li><li>A generation that had parents who were there.<\/li><li>A generation that laughed under the covers in bed, so parents didn&#8217;t know we were still awake.<\/li><li>A generation that is passing and unfortunately it will never return no matter how hard we try. I loved Growing up when I did. it was the best of times.<\/li><\/ul>\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":998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997"}],"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=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1000,"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/1000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldhippie.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}