{"id":9949,"date":"2012-02-11T17:21:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T17:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/11\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-gerry-rafferty\/"},"modified":"2012-02-11T17:21:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T17:21:51","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-gerry-rafferty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/11\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-gerry-rafferty\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Gerry Rafferty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2011\/jan\/04\/gerry-rafferty-obituary\" target=\"_self\">Guardian obituary<\/a> has him born on 16 April 1947 and dead on 4 January 2011.&#0160; I recall his smash <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Fo6aKnRnBxM&amp;ob=av3n\" target=\"_self\">Baker Street<\/a> from the far-off and fabulous summer of 1978.&#0160; It came over&#0160;the car radio in my quondam girl friend&#39;s&#0160;Toyota &#0160;many times as we drove&#0160;from Boston, Mass to Dayton, O to secure me&#0160;an apartment there.&#0160; I hated leaving the Athens of America for the dreary Midwest, but I had landed a tenure-track job and one goes where the jobs are.&#0160; In retrospect, I was extremely lucky to get that job.&#0160; Was I the best of the 100 people who applied for it?&#0160; Not even I believe that.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian obituary has him born on 16 April 1947 and dead on 4 January 2011.&#0160; I recall his smash Baker Street from the far-off and fabulous summer of 1978.&#0160; It came over&#0160;the car radio in my quondam girl friend&#39;s&#0160;Toyota &#0160;many times as we drove&#0160;from Boston, Mass to Dayton, O to secure me&#0160;an apartment there.&#0160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/11\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-gerry-rafferty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saturday Night at the Oldies: Gerry Rafferty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}