{"id":693,"date":"2015-09-01T22:27:02","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T22:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/?p=693"},"modified":"2015-09-01T22:27:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T22:27:02","slug":"the-music-of-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"The Music of the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had an interesting experience last week, as we sat in the parlour of Rita’s Tea Room<\/a> in Big Pond, Cape Breton. Short Pants asked about the ‘big CDs’ on the walls, leading me to try to explain what a platinum record was. Of course, I went into the Bell and the history of the phonograph, wax cylinders, plastic disks at 78 rpm, electromagnetic induction, master disks and vinyl pressing. Naturally that led to the explanation that platinum and gold records actually weren’t, with the exception of the gold record included with the Voyager spacecraft<\/a>, now on its way out of the heliosphere. Then the\u00a0clam chowder came and I ran out of time to finish the lesson.<\/p>\n

Road trips have\u00a0come a long way from automotive record players<\/a>, and binders of CDs<\/a>. On our trip I carried about 300 albums of music on a very small USB thumbdrive. Not that it was necessary. Kids like familiarity and repetition, and Those Johnston Kids are no different. If something is good to listen to, it will be good to listen to again, and again, and again. Despite the plethora of music available in our\u00a0collection, in many different genres, we really only listened to 3 recordings, with the occasional diversion mandated for my sanity.<\/p>\n

As we drove west, the Imagine Dragons<\/a> were in heavy rotation (funny choice of words, isn’t it?). There’s that one lyric from Radioactive<\/a>, that goes “don’t make my system blow”,<\/em> that the kids always sing as “don’t break my sisters toes”<\/em>. That’s only funny the first 30 or so times you hear it though.<\/p>\n

After we picked up Mama and were moving through BC, they discovered Stompin’ Tom<\/a>. That album got played pretty much non-stop from\u00a0Vancouver, when we picked up Alison, back to Ontario. Alison was not a Stompin’ Tom fan especially before the trip, and still isn’t, but at least now she knows all the words. It was neat to visit or pass through many of the places that Stompin’ Tom sang about.<\/p>\n

As we headed east from Toronto, Those Johnston Kids discovered The Phantom of the Opera<\/a>. They are now ready to perform any of the singing roles in the British production. Baby Girl would like to play the Phantom herself. She didn’t much take to the role of Christine, but belts out the Phantom’s verses with verve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had an interesting experience last week, as we sat in the parlour of Rita’s Tea Room in Big Pond, Cape Breton. Short Pants asked about the ‘big CDs’ on the walls, leading me to try to explain what a platinum record was. Of course, I went into the Bell and the history of the … Continue reading The Music of the Night<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}