{"id":1689,"date":"2011-02-11T20:49:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T18:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2025-07-27T20:59:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T17:59:20","slug":"oh-no-what-have-they-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/11\/oh-no-what-have-they-done","title":{"rendered":"Oh no, what have they done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1996 I was a 14-year-old girl in love with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/03\/take-that\">a band<\/a>.\u00a0My world was crushed 15 years ago, almost to the day (Feb 13), when they announced break-up.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s 2011 and I&#8217;m a 29-year-old girl in love with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/about-me\/gadgetry#phones\">brand<\/a>. And my world gets crushed again. I feel devastated and just as <strong>sad<\/strong> as I did back then, after today&#8217;s announcement (I was reminded of that day in &#8217;96 and how horrible I felt). I&#8217;m even more sad, now, because I fear this affects my homeland (negatively, it goes without saying).<\/p>\n<p>But, there&#8217;s still hope. Even Take That came back.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">(I write this as a sort of diary entry for myself because I don&#8217;t keep a diary anymore. I just need to mourn for a while.)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1996 I was a 14-year-old girl in love with a band.\u00a0My world was crushed 15 years ago, almost to the day (Feb 13), when they announced break-up. Now it&#8217;s 2011 and I&#8217;m a 29-year-old girl in love with a brand. And my world gets crushed again. I feel devastated and just as sad as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2789,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions\/2789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}