{"id":842,"date":"2008-11-10T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/?p=842"},"modified":"2008-11-10T09:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T16:15:00","slug":"class-of-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/2008\/11\/10\/class-of-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/piratealice\/3016014003\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3055\/3016014003_1afea36ab9.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/piratealice\/3016014003\/\">Class of 88<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/piratealice\/\">Pirate Alice<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\t<b>Reunion<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I went to my 20 year high school reunion this weekend. It was a great party. I had a lot of fun. Talked to people I haven&#8217;t seen in years. I&#8217;m in a picture with someone I never believed I&#8217;d ever be photographed with. But good times were had by all.<\/p>\n<p>My only complaint with the event is about the music. For anyone planning a reunion, please keep in mind that people are there to talk, and catch up. Keep the volume down for at least the first 3 hours of the event, then you can turn it up to deafening volumes. I&#8217;m all for loud music, but not when I&#8217;m trying to talk to people I haven&#8217;t seen in 20 years. My throat STILL hurts from all the screaming I did Saturday night. And one other musical complaint. When you&#8217;re DJ-ing the reunion of a group of people aged 37-39, don&#8217;t play Britney Spears&#8217;s new song. I don&#8217;t care if you think Duran Duran sucks. DJ-ing isn&#8217;t about YOU, it&#8217;s about the people you&#8217;re playing the music for, Duran Duran may not be great music, but it&#8217;s the nostalgia factor you&#8217;re going for at a reunion when you play the song.  What kind of nostalgia factor does Britney bring to the Class of 1988? <br \/>Not once during the screaming of the night, did I ever pause and say, &#8220;Oh I LOVED this song!&#8221;  A good mobile DJ (even one who is a member of our class) would have gone for the nostalgia factor and not the &#8220;I&#8217;m so cool I&#8217;m a DJ with modern music&#8221; factor. I like Rollins Band, Beastie Boys, The Raincoats, Matisyahu, Nine Inch Nails and Hole but I&#8217;m in touch with people enough to know that not everyone appreciates loud, screaming, angry music. I wouldn&#8217;t be playing that music at the reunion. I&#8217;d go with Tainted Love and Squeeze maybe even Ratt for the big hair crowd. I&#8217;d be digging up all the 80&#8217;s music I could find, even the one-hit-wonders that people may have forgotten they loved. That&#8217;s the sign of a good DJ, someone who cares&#8230;not someone who feels you&#8217;re at their mercy and they will teach you about good music. <br \/>That rant is over&#8230; on to the next&#8230;<br \/>For everyone who SAID they&#8217;d go to the reunion who ended up not going&#8230; You are a loser!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class of 88, originally uploaded by Pirate Alice. Reunion I went to my 20 year high school reunion this weekend. It was a great party. I had a lot of fun. Talked to people I haven&#8217;t seen in years. I&#8217;m in a picture with someone I never believed I&#8217;d ever be photographed with. But good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreadpiratealice.com\/treasure_room\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}