{"id":121,"date":"2006-06-26T20:33:36","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T20:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2006-06-26T20:33:36","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T20:33:36","slug":"kiss-my-sass-blog-archive-bye-bye-miss-american-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbijowoods.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Kiss My Sass \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Bye, bye, Miss American Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Saturdays, yes I do! Too bad they don\u2019t last too long. Got out of bed late today, because I was up until 3 a.m. editing a site that I maintain for a non-profit organization. I am sooooo bad at javascript. Let me tell you\u2026I\u2019m gonna have to take a course or something. I thought I mastered it last summer on my own by reading up on it, but I proved myself wrong that night.<\/p>\n<p>So much technology to master, so little time. Technology doesn\u2019t seem to phaze todays kids, have you noticed? I bet some have never even used a record player or better yet, an eight track or one of those console RCA tv\u2019s without a remote control. Today I wish I was a kid again, playing outside forever, even in the snow, in summers riding my bike, doing things my parents wished I hadn\u2019t, like helping some older kids build tree forts in the woods beyond our backyard. Kids these days have no imagination when it comes to playing. They have all these video games, and the internet. The internet isn\u2019t meant for kids, anyway, I think.<\/p>\n<p>We had such fun when I was a kid, even when we were with our parents. Back then we went to drive-in movies, roller rinks, garage sales and flea markets. I loved the flea markets the most, because here were all these people, putting out their personal stuff, for people to rummage through. Their most precious junk\u2026.Elvis paintings, Roy Rogers lunchboxes, movie posters, mason jars and china and kewpie dolls, and my sister and I took it all in, eyes big as plates, wondering how people could just toss their treasures to the wind and wondering how much further to walk through these roads and fields in the blazing August sun before we could get to the next port-a-potty or soda wagon.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we had fun just staring in wonder and amazement at the people who decided to entertain the crowds with their talents. I can still see and hear the man playing the guitar with the Willie Nelson-inspired straps, singing that song by Don McLean. You know the one\u2026It\u2019s like, eleven minutes long and I think when they play it on the radio it means the DJ is sitting on \u2018the throne\u2019 or else the next one hasn\u2019t shown up yet for his shift.<\/p>\n<p>I got an ad in the mail yesterday for the Literary Guild and was leafing through it today when I realized I\u2019m way behind the times when it comes to books. The last new one I read was one by J. Grisham, who I like but I notice today he\u2019s got two hardcovers already out that I missed. I\u2019m gonna have to update my collection.<\/p>\n<p>Time for me to hit the sack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love Saturdays, yes I do! Too bad they don\u2019t last too long. Got out of bed late today, because I was up until 3 a.m. editing a site that I maintain for a non-profit organization. I am sooooo bad at javascript. Let me tell you\u2026I\u2019m gonna have to take a course or something. 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