{"id":558,"date":"2006-12-03T21:40:13","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T19:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/03\/take-that"},"modified":"2007-10-21T00:38:14","modified_gmt":"2007-10-20T21:38:14","slug":"take-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2006\/12\/03\/take-that","title":{"rendered":"10 years and still loveable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10 years ago, on February 13 1996, my favourite band Take That split up. I was quite mad at them for splitting up on Robbie&#8217;s birthday (Robbie had left the band some time before). I remember sitting in front of the TV watching a program for teens. They showed <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/results?search_query=take+that+back+for+good&#038;search=Search\">Back For Good<\/a> and there was an animated heart beating over the video. I think I cried. (I wasn&#8217;t\/am not the crying type.) I programmed my mini-stereos to play Back For Good 32 times (that&#8217;s the maximum) and I must&#8217;ve listened through at least half of that.<\/p>\n<p>Just the previous year I had been caught in the craze (I have to thank my penpal Shuk Yin for that) even though I&#8217;d sworn I&#8217;m not the boy band type. Well, at least I never was into New Kids on the Block or Boyzone (yuck).<\/p>\n<p>Gary was my favourite, my dream guy, my biggest crush, although in their solo careers Robbie&#8217;s been my favourite all along &#8212; quite obviously.<\/p>\n<p>Now they&#8217;re back and they just released an album on November 27 &#8212; I didn&#8217;t know that! On Friday I was listening to the radio while walking home from work and they said Take That&#8217;s newest single was going to play next. I walked all the way home during the commercial break (even though I tried to walk very slowly!). I ended up standing in the hall, with the earphones  &#8212; and my coat &#8212; on, listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/results?search_query=take+that+patience&#038;search=Search\">Patience<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gary is still so so cute!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">(I know Take That wasn&#8217;t big in the US &#8212; your loss! <img src=\"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" alt=\":)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/> )<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is Gary&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/takethat_gary.jpg\" alt=\"Gary from Take That\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 years ago, on February 13 1996, my favourite band Take That split up. I was quite mad at them for splitting up on Robbie&#8217;s birthday (Robbie had left the band some time before). I remember sitting in front of the TV watching a program for teens. They showed Back For Good and there was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","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=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}