{"id":248,"date":"2006-01-30T18:21:33","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T23:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/index.php\/it-was-a-very-good-year"},"modified":"2006-01-30T18:21:33","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T23:21:33","slug":"it-was-a-very-good-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackgate.net\/blog\/it-was-a-very-good-year\/","title":{"rendered":"It was a very good year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was seventeen<br \/>\nIt was a very good year<br \/>\nIt was a very good year for small town girls<br \/>\nAnd soft summer nights<br \/>\nWe&#8217;d hide from the lights<br \/>\nOn the village green<br \/>\nWhen I was seventeen<\/p>\n<p>When I was twenty-one<br \/>\nIt was a very good year<br \/>\nIt was a very good year for city girls<br \/>\nWho lived up the stair<br \/>\nWith all that perfumed hair<br \/>\nAnd it came undone<br \/>\nWhen I was twenty-one<\/p>\n<p>When I was thirty-five<br \/>\nIt was a very good year<br \/>\nIt was a very good year for blue-blooded girls<br \/>\nOf independent means<br \/>\nWe&#8217;d ride in limousines<br \/>\nTheir chauffeurs would drive<br \/>\nWhen I was thirty-five<\/p>\n<p>But now the days grow short<br \/>\nI&#8217;m in the autumn of the year<br \/>\nAnd now I think of my life as vintage wine<br \/>\nFrom fine old kegs<br \/>\nFrom the brim to the dregs<br \/>\nAnd it poured sweet and clear<br \/>\nIt was a very good year<\/p>\n<p>(from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000002NFI\/rpglibrary\/\"><em>It was a very good year<\/em><\/a>, by Frank Sinatra)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was seventeen It was a very good year It was a very good year for small town girls And soft summer nights We&#8217;d hide from the lights On the village green When I was seventeen When I was twenty-one It was a very good year It was a very good year for city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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