{"id":150,"date":"2006-02-25T12:37:46","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T17:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2006-03-02T14:01:24","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T19:01:24","slug":"rock-n-roll-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/rock-n-roll-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock-N-Roll High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/ramones.gif\" alt=\"Ramones, Johnny, Joey, DeeDee, Tommy\"\/><\/div>\n<p>I am strongly influenced by my high school days in Houston.  I treasure these 20+ year friendships.  While I&#8217;ve lost touch with some, the internet allowed me to stay in touch with a core group.  A friendship philosophy I developed in college still applies today.  My philosophy is, if we have ever been friends, real friends, then time and distance are meaningless.  I&#8217;m your friend forever, with no strings attached.  You can walk back in to my life and I&#8217;ll be thrilled to hear your voice and we will pick back up right where we left off.<\/p>\n<p>And if I don&#8217;t call you, or email you, or IM with you&#8230;that doesn&#8217;t mean I don&#8217;t think of you often.  For example, Michelle (<a href=\"http:\/\/wickedinboston.blogspot.com\/\">Meesh<\/a>) Gardner, one of my best friends since junior high, has an incredibly strong influence on me.  It is as though I carry her voice in my head.  Often, when I need advice&#8230;I&#8217;ll literally think of my dear friends, and it is as though I can hear their words of wisdom in my ears.  And yes, Meesh is always brilliantly opinionated, bitingly sarcastic and unerringly on target.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past week I&#8217;ve been taking a wonderful stroll down memory lane that was triggered by an extra order of shrimp at dinner last Friday.  The manager of the restaurant arrived at our table with a side order of shrimp for my son.  As he placed the dish on the table, I saw a sparkle in his eyes that triggered a 20+ year old memory.  My stream of consciousness went like this&#8230;jewish, houston, sam, young judea, drummer, gedi duroe, rock-n-roll high school&#8230;(I best stop there).   Indeed, it was Sam, the drummer in the band from my high school days.  No, no&#8230;I wasn&#8217;t in the band.  I just dated the lead singer\/lead guitar.<\/p>\n<p>Sam and I swapped stories and email addresses and by the end of the weekend, we had reconnected with many more of the old crew.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/beccavappa\/Becca_songs.html\">Becca<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbn.org.il\/news05\/JPost_080405a.htm\">David<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rhondarubin.livejournal.com\/\">Rhonda<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftertherayne.com\/\">Nikie<\/a>, Norman, Roberta, <ins><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1000oaksbarrel.com\/ElvisGump.html\">Bryan<\/a>!!!<\/ins>&#8230;<del>and still looking for Bryan<\/del> and wondering if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/glsims99\/103900962\/\">Glenn<\/a> ever reads his email.<\/p>\n<p>And who do I have to thank for this stroll down memory lane&#8230;well, I personally blame Lindsey&#8217;s post the other day&#8230;about the lost art of <a href=\"http:\/\/smoness.livejournal.com\/57150.html\">meaningful eye contact<\/a>.   Thanks Linds for yet another great gift!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/ramones.gif\" alt=\"Ramones, Johnny, Joey, DeeDee, Tommy\"\/><\/div>\n<p>I am strongly influenced by my high school days in Houston.  I treasure these 20+ year friendships.  While I&#8217;ve lost touch with some, the internet allowed me to stay in touch with a core group.  A friendship philosophy I developed in college still applies today.  My philosophy is, if we have ever been friends, real friends, then time and distance are meaningless.  I&#8217;m your friend forever, with no strings attached.  You can walk back in to my life and I&#8217;ll be thrilled to hear your voice and we will pick back up right where we left off.\n<\/p>\n<p>Over the past week I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been taking a wonderful stroll down memory lane that was triggered by an extra order of shrimp at dinner last Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}