{"id":203,"date":"2008-11-18T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/u75blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2010-08-01T12:28:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T11:28:34","slug":"a-trip-to-rockaway-beach-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-trip-to-rockaway-beach-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"A trip to Rockaway Beach, 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/music\/images\/rockaway.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Allow me to introduce a youthful photo of me near Rockaway Beach, on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens, circa 1986 &#8211; a trip taken in homage of the mighty Ramones.<\/p>\n<p>It had to be said there wasn&#8217;t a lot to see at Far Rockaway, but that didn&#8217;t matter. I was treading where <em>The Ramones<\/em> had been!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the lyrics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chewing out a rhythm on my bubble gum<br \/>\nThe sun is out and I want some<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not hard, not far to reach<br \/>\nWe can hitch a ride<br \/>\nTo Rockaway Beach<\/p>\n<p>Up on the roof, out on the street<br \/>\nDown in the playground the hot concrete<br \/>\nBus ride is too slow<br \/>\nThey blast out the disco on the radio<\/p>\n<p>Rock Rock Rockaway Beach<br \/>\nRock Rock Rockaway Beach<br \/>\nRock Rock Rockaway Beach<br \/>\nWe can hitch a ride<br \/>\nTo Rockaway Beach (X2)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not hard, not far to reach<br \/>\nWe can hitch a ride<br \/>\nTo Rockaway Beach (x2)<\/p>\n<p>Chewing out a rhythm on my bubble gum<br \/>\nThe sun is out and I want some<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not hard, not far to reach<br \/>\nWe can hitch a ride<br \/>\nTo Rockaway Beach<\/p>\n<p>Up on the roof, out on the street<br \/>\nDown in the playground the hot concrete<br \/>\nBus ride is too slow<br \/>\nThey blast out the disco on the radio<\/p>\n<p>Rock Rock Rockaway Beach<br \/>\nRock Rock Rockaway Beach<br \/>\nRock Rock Rockaway Beach<br \/>\nWe can hitch a ride<br \/>\nTo Rockaway Beach (X3)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Hairspray on max<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It took vast amounts of Extra Super Hold AquaNet to maintain that plumage, although in the humid September heat of NY, there were several quiff-collapsing disasters, with the spiky black barnet being replaced by (oh the shame!) <em>curls!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever gone miles to photograph yourself at a musical landmark?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allow me to introduce a youthful photo of me near Rockaway Beach, on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens, circa 1986 &#8211; a trip taken &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[5,1197,317],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-stuff","tag-bands","tag-music","tag-ramones"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/rockaway.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-3h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/2063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}