{"id":2959,"date":"2016-02-29T21:46:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T04:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocc.org\/?p=2959"},"modified":"2016-02-29T21:46:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T04:46:25","slug":"song-of-the-day-green-day-2000-light-years-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/2016\/02\/29\/song-of-the-day-green-day-2000-light-years-away\/","title":{"rendered":"SONG OF THE DAY: GREEN DAY &#8211; &#8220;2000 LIGHT YEARS AWAY&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: 2000 Light Years Away\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/6pM25DLzJb5oWj74d3ElXI?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Has anyone posted about Green Day lately? I don&#8217;t think so, or if they have, it hasn&#8217;t been recent enough. If you know me, you know I&#8217;m a Green Day fanatic- indeed, every song they&#8217;ve ever recorded has found its way into my itunes library, and I&#8217;ve heard them all, too (it&#8217;s about 14 hours of listening, if you wanted to do it all in one sitting).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;2000 Light Years Away&#8221; is the opening track from Green Day&#8217;s first album, the oft-forgotten &#8220;Kerplunk!&#8221; The album was released during a simpler time; nobody was arguing about what was or wasn&#8217;t &#8220;&#8221;&#8221;pop punk&#8221;&#8221;&#8221; and, I&#8217;m gonna say it, it always seems to me that kids who wanted to listen to Green Day in 1992 probably had it a lot easier than kids do now. The song is written in a familiar style if one listens to a lot of early Green Day, with Billie Joe sorta whining about loving a girl and being totally hot for her, too. Funnily enough, this song was written about Billie Joe&#8217;s then-girlfriend, now-wife, who was a fan he met backstage at a show. You, too, could marry your idol!<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, there isn&#8217;t much else to say. If you like Green Day, you&#8217;ll like this. If you&#8217;re not into it, you&#8217;re entitled to your opinion (even though it&#8217;s totally wrong).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has anyone posted about Green Day lately? I don&#8217;t think so, or if they have, it hasn&#8217;t been recent enough. If you know me, you know I&#8217;m a Green Day fanatic- indeed, every song they&#8217;ve ever recorded has found its way into my itunes library, and I&#8217;ve heard them all, too (it&#8217;s about 14 hours [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1108,"featured_media":2960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-of-the"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7fJU-LJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}