{"id":523,"date":"2011-11-12T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp\/?p=523"},"modified":"2016-07-26T14:02:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T18:02:02","slug":"julian-in-ancient-garb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp\/2011\/julian-in-ancient-garb\/","title":{"rendered":"Julian in Ancient Garb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P1000579.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[523]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-524 aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"P1000579\" data-src=\"http:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P1000579-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P1000579-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P1000579-668x1024.jpg 668w, https:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/P1000579.jpg 1336w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 195px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 195\/300;\" \/><\/a>Here's my grandson Julian wearing one of my brother Gary's\u00a0old \"Desserts\" t-shirts. Desserts was the name of Gary's band back in the early '70s. So that would be like me wearing a medieval jerkin...or something. So old...so old...<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it fits Julian to a \"T\" -\u00a0<em>heh<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Desserts, look what the google found: \u00a0an ancient recording of \"Bernadette\" performed by Desserts several thousand years ago at the Royal Oak Music Theater (I think). \u00a0\"Bernadette\" was one of my favorite Desserts songs back then. \u00a0I's a clever and catchy \u00a0song about Motown Records leaving Detroit, using snippets of other Motown songs. \u00a0 It was written by local guy Stuart Mitchell, and \u00a0in this version, Gary Rosenberg is singing. I believe Motown songwriter\/artist Eddie Kendricks also recorded it in the early '80s.<\/p>\n<p>Give it a listen:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-523-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Bernadette-Desserts.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Bernadette-Desserts.mp3\">http:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Bernadette-Desserts.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here's my grandson Julian wearing one of my brother Gary's\u00a0old \"Desserts\" t-shirts. Desserts was the name of Gary's band back in the early '70s. So that would be like me wearing a medieval jerkin...or something. So old...so old... Anyway, it fits Julian to a \"T\" -\u00a0heh. Speaking of Desserts, look what the google found: \u00a0an <a href=\"https:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp\/2011\/julian-in-ancient-garb\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Julian in Ancient Garb\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-family","category-music","h-entry","hentry","h-as-article"],"modified_by":"admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sussmans.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}