{"id":1673,"date":"2008-05-13T10:10:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T14:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2008\/05\/13\/stuck-in-1984\/"},"modified":"2008-05-13T10:10:28","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T14:10:28","slug":"stuck-in-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2008\/05\/13\/stuck-in-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck in 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I think it would be a great thing to be stuck in 1984. I was young, there was some great music, the U.S. was rocking the Olympics&#8230;but that same year also had some bad things: the Reagan presidency, Michael Jackson&#8217;s scalp being burned filming a Pepsi commercial, Marvin Gaye being murdered by his father.<\/p>\n<p>And it also has some terrible optical fashions. Eye glasses from that year (hell, the entire decade) were horrible. Big, bulky, geeky. <\/p>\n<p>Yet when I went to Pearle Vision yesterday to look into some cheap prescriptions sunglasses, I was astonished at the selection of 80&#8217;s inspired eyewear. What gives? Who still buys these things?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normally, I think it would be a great thing to be stuck in 1984. I was young, there was some great music, the U.S. was rocking the Olympics&#8230;but that same year also had some bad things: the Reagan presidency, Michael Jackson&#8217;s scalp being burned filming a Pepsi commercial, Marvin Gaye being murdered by his father. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}