{"id":2847,"date":"2009-08-11T00:35:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-11T08:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=2847"},"modified":"2009-08-11T00:35:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T08:35:15","slug":"the-50-bands-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/the-50-bands-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50 Bands Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dream_rock_concert_poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2848\" title=\"dream_rock_concert_poster\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dream_rock_concert_poster-218x300.png?resize=218%2C300\" alt=\"dream_rock_concert_poster\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dream_rock_concert_poster.png?resize=218%2C300&amp;ssl=1 218w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/dream_rock_concert_poster.png?w=288&amp;ssl=1 288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expostfacto.etsy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heidi<\/a> challenged me to compile a list of 50 bands I&#8217;ve seen. I balked at first, thinking No way, I haven&#8217;t even seen 50 different bands. I&#8217;ve seen some bands 10 times, but you can only list each band one time.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to try it, and it was murderously hard. At #37, I was already scraping the bottom of my memory bank.&nbsp;\u00a0 My teenager came home and I complained about my list. He decided to start making his own list.&nbsp;\u00a0 He was up to 50 in a couple of minutes. I finally got to 50, by remembering an obscure punk band I&#8217;d seen as an opening act. My son stopped at 80.<\/p>\n<p>My husband came home and took the challenge, saying he&#8217;d just list the 50 most famous bands he&#8217;d seen. When I read his list, I realized that I&#8217;d forgotten to list Prince!!!! It was such a big deal at the time, and yet I&#8217;d completely forgotten it. Shit! I also forgot the Pretenders, Iron Maiden and Willie Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>Take the challenge! It&#8217;s a great way to test your memory and in the process retrieve some forgotten moments. Or not, if your memory is as screwed as mine is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Heidi challenged me to compile a list of 50 bands I&#8217;ve seen. I balked at first, thinking No way, I haven&#8217;t even seen 50 different bands. I&#8217;ve seen some bands 10 times, but you can only list each &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/the-50-bands-challenge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[664,665,162],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-JV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}