{"id":4084,"date":"2002-09-01T01:21:00","date_gmt":"2002-09-01T01:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/09\/01\/where-have-all-the-good-girls-gone\/"},"modified":"2002-09-01T01:21:00","modified_gmt":"2002-09-01T01:21:00","slug":"where-have-all-the-good-girls-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/09\/01\/where-have-all-the-good-girls-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Where have all the good girls gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So within the past week or so I&#8217;ve spoken with two good friends who I don&#8217;t normally get a chance to talk with. They both live in the US and the six hour time difference among other things gets in the way.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today I was sitting here online and my mobile started to ring. There was no number being displayed and I wasn&#8217;t bothered to answer it. Pretty much anyone ringing on my mobile I should have a number stored for and it will show up. I just wasn&#8217;t in the mood to find out who else it could be&#8230;except I had forgotten that people ringing from the US won&#8217;t show up on it.<\/p>\n<p>So anyone I checked the voicemail that had been left and it was a friend in DC. Sent her a quick mail and she rang back (oops). We chatted for a bit, not really about anything much that was mainly my fault. Other than being caught off guard by the call I wasn&#8217;t really in a talkative mood. One thing she did ask and its a fair question was why was I booking all these concert tickets if I was suppose to be going to the US. Well, I&#8217;m not going to not book them in case everything gets sorted out before them, when it does get sorted if it causes problems with the dates I can work something out in work.<\/p>\n<p>On that kinda note, she also mentioned recently that I was talking about music a lot more recently and yes I have been. It got me to thinking again about the fact that I don&#8217;t usually see much live music. I don&#8217;t know why that is. I&#8217;ve never been to a bad gig, never had any problems or anything. I quite happily paid \u00a360 plus for entrance to sci-fi cons and then at least another \u00a350 on that just for stuff there. So \u00a330 for a ticket to a gig isn&#8217;t all that bad. Although I suspect that Springsteen could be pricey but ah well I can afford it.<\/p>\n<p>But back to the talking topic, its kinda strange. I&#8217;ve been thinking over the past few days that it&#8217;s been a while since I sat down and talked to someone about stuff. Not just things in general but stuff. (Isn&#8217;t stuff a great coverall word?). Its something I should do but the chance just never really came around with anyone yet and I was kinda out of it earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed something about another friend recently aswell and I don&#8217;t know if it was just because we hadn&#8217;t talked about stuff (see I&#8217;m doing it again) in a while or if it was a general change but she was way more open than I had ever noticed before. In fact she was a tad more open than I would normally be use to (no comments from the peanut gallery please). I really do wonder if that is me, but it was interesting and something worth thinking about. The words &#8220;me too&#8221; are sometimes hard to say.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to write a post about phrases for a while and when I was talking with another friend earlier in the week she used a phrase that was something I meant to talk about. Listen for yourself or someone else using the phrase &#8220;yeah..no&#8221; in conversation. Then ask yourself if it made any sense at all. More to come on that at some stage. I&#8217;m going to go and sleep now, oh and yes we have broadened from music to pop culture or indeed cult culture for these titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So within the past week or so I&#8217;ve spoken with two good friends who I don&#8217;t normally get a chance to talk with. They both live in the US and the six hour time difference among other things gets in the way. Earlier today I was sitting here online and my mobile started to ring. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/09\/01\/where-have-all-the-good-girls-gone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Where have all the good girls gone?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}