{"id":2018,"date":"2025-04-22T15:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobboydpoems.com\/stuck-in-a-musical-time-warp\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T15:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:58:16","slug":"stuck-in-a-musical-time-warp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/stuck-in-a-musical-time-warp\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck in a Musical Time Warp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I listen to a playlist I created on YouTube,<br>\nold songs I never tire of, songs like:<\/p>\n<p>I Don&#8217;t Want to Live Without You by Foreigner<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d Really Like To See You Tonight by Dan and John Ford Coley<\/p>\n<p>Nights Are Forever Without You by Dan and John Ford Coley<\/p>\n<p>Missing You by John Waite<\/p>\n<p>I Can&#8217;t Make You Love Me Bonnie Raitt <\/p>\n<p>I Go Crazy by Paul Davis<\/p>\n<p>Laughter In the Rain by Neil Sedaka<\/p>\n<p>Second Chance by 38 Special<\/p>\n<p>Right Down the Line Gerry Raffety<\/p>\n<p>And many more songs from the ever distant past,<br>\nthat keeps passing faster and faster leaving<br>\nme and all those songs far behind and facing away.<\/p>\n<p>But to me these songs sound today just as<br>\nfresh and new as they did back in their day<br>\nwhen they were hits on the charts, as if<br>\nI\u2019m oblivious to the fact that those songs I<br>\nlove are no longer fresh and are decades old &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>as if I\u2019m stuck in a musical time warp.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Boyd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I listen to a playlist I created on YouTube, old songs I never tire of, songs like: I Don&#8217;t Want to Live Without You by Foreigner I\u2019d Really Like To See You Tonight by Dan and John Ford Coley Nights Are Forever Without You by Dan and John Ford Coley Missing You by John Waite&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/stuck-in-a-musical-time-warp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobwriting.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}