{"id":77997,"date":"2012-07-28T14:14:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-28T20:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=77997"},"modified":"2012-07-28T14:14:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-28T20:14:36","slug":"when-popular-culture-caught-up-to-the-way-we-live-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=77997","title":{"rendered":"When Popular Culture Caught Up to the Way We Live Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303703004577477082587965526.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s said that most Americans under the age of 30 reflexively dislike movies made before 1970, especially those that were shot in black-and-white. If this is so, I suspect it&#8217;s because such films portray an America that no longer exists. Those of us who are a couple of decades older than that well up with intense nostalgia at the sight of that reassuringly familiar place, even the uncomfortable districts that harbored desperate souls hurtling toward a rendezvous with film-noir death. After all, that&#8217;s the place where we grew up. For those under 30, though, black-and-white America is an impenetrably strange land peopled with creatures who look like human beings but live in a parallel universe of fedoras, dial telephones, three-channel TV sets and more or less nuclear families.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The key was the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy. That&#8217;s when the rot set in, and it&#8217;s been downhill ever since.<\/p>\n<p>My father, WWII vet, habitually wore a hat when he went outside until well into the 70s. He bought me one when I was about 14; it sat on the ledge in our front coat closet. Don&#8217;t know what ever happened to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. It&#8217;s said that most Americans under the age of 30 reflexively dislike movies made before 1970, especially those that were shot in black-and-white. If this is so, I suspect it&#8217;s because such films portray an America that no longer exists. Those of us who are a couple of decades older than that well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77999,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77997\/revisions\/77999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}