{"id":385,"date":"2010-11-01T23:11:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T23:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/?p=385"},"modified":"2014-03-19T23:12:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T23:12:37","slug":"talking-to-girls-about-duran-duran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/talking-to-girls-about-duran-duran\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking to Girls About Duran Duran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"myoptions\">\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robsheffield.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">By Rob Sheffield<\/a><\/br>\r\n[myrating]\r\n<\/div><br \/>\nThe 1980s meant MTV and John Hughes movies, big dreams and bigger shoulder pads, and millions of teen girls who nursed crushes on the members of Duran Duran. As a solitary teenager stranded in the suburbs, Rob Sheffield had a lot to learn about women, love, music, and himself. And he was sure his radio had all the answers.<\/p>\n<p>As evidenced by the bestselling sales of Sheffield&#8217;s first book, Love Is a Mix Tape, the connection between music and memory strikes a chord with readers. Talking to Girls About Duran Duran strikes that chord all over again, and is a pitch-perfect trip through &#8217;80s music-from Bowie to Bobby Brown, from hair metal to hip-hop. But this book is not just about music. It&#8217;s about growing up and how every song is a snapshot of a moment that you&#8217;ll remember the rest of your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"myoptions\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robsheffield.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">By Rob Sheffield<\/a><\/br><br \/>\n[myrating]\n<\/div>\n<p>The 1980s meant MTV and John Hughes movies, big dreams and bigger shoulder pads, and millions of teen girls who nursed crushes on the members of Duran Duran. As a solitary teenager stranded in the suburbs, Rob Sheffield had a lot to learn about women, love, music, and himself. And he was sure his radio had all the answers.<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/talking-to-girls-about-duran-duran\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Read More ...<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicolatrwst.com\/thebelvedereliterarysociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}