{"id":4178,"date":"2002-08-05T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-05T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/08\/05\/glory-days\/"},"modified":"2002-08-05T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-05T10:55:00","slug":"glory-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/08\/05\/glory-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Glory Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>I had a friend was a big baseball player<br \/>\nback in high school<br \/>\nHe could throw that speedball by you<br \/>\nMake you look like a fool boy<br \/>\nSaw him the other night at this roadside bar<br \/>\nI was walking in, he was walking out<br \/>\nWe went back inside sat down had a few drinks<br \/>\nbut all he kept talking about was<\/p>\n<p>Chorus:<br \/>\nGlory days well they&#8217;ll pass you by<br \/>\nGlory days in the wink of a young girl&#8217;s eye<br \/>\nGlory days, glory days<\/p>\n<p>Well there&#8217;s a girl that lives up the block<br \/>\nback in school she could turn all the boy&#8217;s heads<br \/>\nSometimes on a Friday I&#8217;ll stop by<br \/>\nand have a few drinks after she put her kids to bed<br \/>\nHer and her husband Bobby well they split up<br \/>\nI guess it&#8217;s two years gone by now<br \/>\nWe just sit around talking about the old times,<br \/>\nshe says when she feels like crying<br \/>\nshe starts laughing thinking about<\/p>\n<p>Chorus<\/p>\n<p>Now I think I&#8217;m going down to the well tonight<br \/>\nand I&#8217;m going to drink till I get my fill<br \/>\nAnd I hope when I get old I don&#8217;t sit around thinking about it<br \/>\nbut I probably will<br \/>\nYeah, just sitting back trying to recapture<br \/>\na little of the glory of, well time slips away<br \/>\nand leaves you with nothing mister but<br \/>\nboring stories of glory days<\/p>\n<p>Chorus (repeat twice)<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>A bit of a Springsteen kick going on at the moment so&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school He could throw that speedball by you Make you look like a fool boy Saw him the other night at this roadside bar I was walking in, he was walking out We went back inside sat down had a few drinks but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/08\/05\/glory-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Glory Days&#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-4178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178"}],"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=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}