{"id":129,"date":"2008-10-07T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moavenz.com\/blog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2008-10-07T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T14:00:00","slug":"yet-another-sign-of-the-apocolypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moavenz.com\/blog\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Sign of the Apocolypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ride with me for a moment&#8230;  My girls have reached a stage (12 &amp; 9) where life revolves around the radio &#8211; just waiting for those favorite songs to play (the pop ones they play at least twice a day EVERY day).  When riding around town, I usually defer to them on choice of station, but I&#8217;m not lax in my Mom duty of throwing an occasional eye-rolling, especially when the shrieky, giggley, &#8220;OMG! my favorite song!&#8221; songs come on.  So we&#8217;re riding home, listening to THEIR station, when I hear a few familiar notes, and loudly proclaim, &#8220;I can&#8217;t believe it!  They&#8217;re actually playing some GOOD music for a change!!&#8221; and I crank the volume.  Only&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m getting ready to hear a great song by one of my all time favorite bands, The Clash:<br \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HQwm1v1R-qM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HQwm1v1R-qM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>But what I get instead, almost immediately, another shrieky, giggley, OMG! pop song:<br \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7sei-eEjy4g&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7sei-eEjy4g&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container\"><div class=\"a2a_kit addtoany_list\"><a class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/moavenz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nvar a2a_config = a2a_config || {};\na2a_config.linkname=\"Yet Another Sign of the Apocolypse\";\na2a_config.linkurl=\"http:\/\/moavenz.com\/blog\/?p=129\";\n\/\/--><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/menu\/page.js\"><\/script>\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ride with me for a moment&#8230; My girls have reached a stage (12 &amp; 9) where life revolves around the radio &#8211; just waiting for those favorite songs to play (the pop ones they play at least twice a day EVERY day). 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