{"id":35550,"date":"2019-02-19T03:37:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T03:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35550"},"modified":"2019-02-19T03:37:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T03:37:49","slug":"these-are-the-beach-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35550","title":{"rendered":"These are the Beach Boys?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/beach-boys.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-35551\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/beach-boys-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/beach-boys-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/beach-boys-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/beach-boys-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/beach-boys.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out the picture. It is of the Beach Boys, the iconic band from the 1960s. Except for this little item: The Beach Boys that I used to listen to comprised five members; this bunch totals nine men.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, two of the original Beach Boys are dead: brothers Dennis and Carl Wilson. And . . . the creative genius behind the band, Brian Wilson, no longer plays with the band he founded.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the two men in the hats. The one on the left is Mike Love, the lead singer of the Beach Boys dating back to their glory days; the guy on the right is Bruce Johnston, a long time band member, but he was a part-timer back when Dennis and Carl were still with us.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and then we have Al Jardine, a friend of the Wilson family, who also was a member.<\/p>\n<p>I guess my point is that the Beach Boys whose music I used to enjoy no longer exists.<\/p>\n<p>I hope they can at least <em>sound<\/em> like the Beach Boys.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the picture. It is of the Beach Boys, the iconic band from the 1960s. Except for this little item: The Beach Boys that I used to listen to comprised five members; this bunch totals nine men. What&#8217;s more, two of the original Beach Boys are dead: brothers Dennis and Carl Wilson. And . &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35550\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">These are the Beach Boys?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8395,8396],"class_list":["post-35550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-beach-boys","tag-rock-n-roll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35552,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35550\/revisions\/35552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}