{"id":759,"date":"2002-12-21T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-21T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/2002\/12\/21\/759\/"},"modified":"2015-12-04T21:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T02:33:36","slug":"759","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=759","title":{"rendered":"The Dangerous Type, On Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the silliest songs contain profound visions of the future. In 1979, the <b>Cars<\/b> released their Candy O album, which included a tune that foresaw the Internet e-dating scene, where people meet and fall in love well before they come face to face.  Here are the opening lines from &#8220;The Dangerous Type&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><i>Can I touch you, are you out of touch<br \/>\n<br \/>I guess I never noticed that much<br \/>\n<br \/>Germanium lover I&#8217;m live on your wire<br \/>\n<br \/>Ooo, come and take me who ever you are<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Not bad, considering that in 1979, the Internet was still a clunky semi-military system that hardly anyone knew about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the silliest songs contain profound visions of the future. In 1979, the Cars released their Candy O album, which included a tune that foresaw the Internet e-dating scene, where people meet and fall in love well before they come face to face. Here are the opening lines from &#8220;The Dangerous Type&#8221;: Can I touch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5821,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions\/5821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}