{"id":57828,"date":"2015-01-25T08:30:41","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T13:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57828"},"modified":"2015-01-24T08:36:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T13:36:52","slug":"for-our-younger-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57828","title":{"rendered":"For TAH&#8217;s Younger Readers:  20 Minutes with Al"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAH has a wide age range in it&#8217;s readership &#8211; from teens to those in their 80s (hello, Sam). Though many of our older readers may enjoy what follows, I\u2019m writing this primarily for our younger readers \u2013 those who are maybe 30 and younger.<\/p>\n<p>For those younger readers, here&#8217;s a bit of unsolicited free advice. Take it or not as you see fit.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d suggest you get high-quality audio copies of the tunes below.\u00a0 Set them aside for a while &#8211; maybe a couple of decades or so.\u00a0 When you turn about, say, 50 . . . give them a listen.<\/p>\n<p>They might not exactly be your &#8220;cup of tea&#8221; now.\u00a0 But I think you\u2019ll view them differently at that point in your life.\u00a0 As one age, one&#8217;s perspectives and tastes change.<\/p>\n<p>These particular tunes age quite well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Youth and Infatuation<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/XOnNZfxVRZo?rel=0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A Unique Time and Place<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/zvBfIdhG974?rel=0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>and, with apologies to Marcel Proust:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Remembrance of Things Past<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/dHgWLS7-osY?rel=0\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>FWIW: the above can be found on Al Stewart&#8217;s albums \u201cYear of the Cat\u201d and \u201cTime Passages\u201d.\u00a0 The sound quality on both is exquisite; Alan Parsons engineered both albums.\u00a0 They\u2019re also on at least one of his \u201cGreatest Hits\u201d collections.<\/p>\n<p>As I said above:\u00a0 unsolicited advice, so give it the value you deem apropos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>. . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We now return you to your regular TAH programming.\u00a0 (smile)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAH has a wide age range in it&#8217;s readership &#8211; from teens to those in their &hellip; <a title=\"For TAH&#8217;s Younger Readers:  20 Minutes with Al\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57828\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">For TAH&#8217;s Younger Readers:  20 Minutes with Al<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-who-knows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}