{"id":1251,"date":"2013-02-23T11:55:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T16:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ae0.92e.myftpupload.com\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2013-02-23T11:55:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T16:55:36","slug":"this-could-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/?p=1251","title":{"rendered":"This could be…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OLYMPUS<\/a>…a picture taken 50 years ago, but it isn’t.\u00a0 It was taken a few days ago as my Grandson and his girlfriend were arriving home from school, for their afternoon raid on the refrigerator.\u00a0 When you think of how drastically\u00a0our lives have changed\u00a0since our own teenage\u00a0years, it is quite amazing that the Varsity Jacket\u00a0is still pretty much the same, with one exception.\u00a0\u00a0There are\u00a0competitive sports teams in high school now for girls, where they can earn their own jackets, as in the above picture.\u00a0\u00a0In my era, the closest we would get to wearing a jacket, was having a boyfriend with a jacket.\u00a0 That is,\u00a0a boyfriend who would let you wear it long enough to be seen by the other girls, provoking great envy and jealousy.\u00a0 Popularity\u00a0was not dictated by looks and personality\u00a0alone,\u00a0a Varsity jacket and a car..any kind of car..moved\u00a0you up a few extra rungs on the\u00a0popularity ladder.\u00a0 However, when you peel away all the technology available to teens; \u00a0the phones with texting, the tablets, ipads, and\u00a0the video games, they still are the just same as we were.\u00a0They need their friends, they need their food, and they need their activities.\u00a0 \u00a0It sounds familiar, doesn’t it?\u00a0 We still have and want friends,\u00a0we certainly are into our food, and we love our activities.\u00a0How many times have you heard Villagers say I feel like a teenager again.\u00a0 It could be that we have\u00a0any and all sports here, too many restaurants to name, and we have an abundance of friends.\u00a0 We are set apart from our teenage counterparts, as\u00a0we don’t have Varsity jackets, but\u00a0it also can be said we\u00a0don’t have white bucks and Varsity sweaters, and that could be a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…a picture taken 50 years ago, but it isn’t.\u00a0 It was taken a few days ago as my Grandson and his girlfriend were arriving home from school, for their afternoon raid on the refrigerator.\u00a0 When you think of how drastically\u00a0our lives have changed\u00a0since our own teenage\u00a0years, it is quite amazing that the Varsity Jacket\u00a0is still […]<\/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-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}