{"id":5568,"date":"2019-08-07T19:55:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T00:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/?p=5568"},"modified":"2019-08-08T23:00:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T04:00:40","slug":"a-generation-x-woodstock-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/07\/a-generation-x-woodstock-view\/","title":{"rendered":"A Generation X Woodstock View"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a teen I romanticized it. Now, I realize that&#8217;s the same as mythologizing something. Of course the reality of the experience was anything but. Unless you were <strong><em>having a good trip<\/em><\/strong>, as it were. As a young teen in the early eighties, maybe from my older sister&#8217;s record collection, I was into CSNY, Dylan, Clapton, Beatles, Stones, etc. This was odd for 1983 I suppose. Even though MTV fascinated me in and of itself, I always &#8220;hate-watched&#8221; the content thinking it was so superficial compared to my beloved 60&#8217;s. <br>     But enough about my thoughts on this now. I&#8217;ll add to them later including a whole chapter from my novel &#8220;The Horizon&#8217;s Blue Chance&#8221; which is all about a re-enactment of Woodstock at a college party in 1988. (the Chapter that is, not the whole novel. It&#8217;s the next to last one in the book, so it serves a prominent purpose to the story as a whole, at least psychologically and spiritually, a sort of &#8220;belly of the whale&#8221; experience.&#8221;)   <br>     I saw an article in today&#8217;s New York Times entitled &#8220;Woodstock Was the Birthplace of Festival Fashion&#8221; and like so much of my blog I just wanted to create a repository for media concerning topics I&#8217;m interested in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/07\/arts\/music\/festival-fashion-woodstock.html\">&#8220;Woodstock Was the Birthplace of Festival Fashion<\/a> \u2014 The New York Times , August 7th, 2019.<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/07\/arts\/music\/roger-daltrey-who-woodstock.html\">Roger Daltrey is Not Nostalgic for Woodstock<\/a> \u2014 The New York Times. August 8th, 2019.<\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/swamisatchidananda.org\/life\/woodstock-guru\/\">SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA &#8211; Woodstock Guru <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a teen I romanticized it. Now, I realize that&#8217;s the same as mythologizing something. Of course the reality of the experience was anything but. Unless you were having a good trip, as it were. As a young teen in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2019\/08\/07\/a-generation-x-woodstock-view\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,78,381],"tags":[446,439,482],"class_list":["post-5568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-music","category-spiritual","tag-culture","tag-music","tag-woodstock"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/woodstockfashion.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}