{"id":3245,"date":"2011-04-26T10:35:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/?p=3245"},"modified":"2011-04-26T10:35:43","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:35:43","slug":"1980-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/1980-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"1980 Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demo.jennyjones.com\/videos_vintage.shtml\" target=\"blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3320\" title=\"band\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/band-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/band-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/band-1024x670.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/band.jpg 1904w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>Here&#8217;s what happened in 1980:<\/p>\n<p>Mount St. Helens erupted, causing $3 billion in damages.<\/p>\n<p>Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back was released.<\/p>\n<p>Gas cost $1.19 a gallon.<\/p>\n<p>Pac-Man, the best selling arcade game of all time, was introduced.<\/p>\n<p>Vigdis Finnbogadottir was elected president of Iceland.<\/p>\n<p>CNN was officially launched.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald Reagan was elected president.<\/p>\n<p>The Polish government recognized solidarity.<\/p>\n<p>My band played a gig at the Black Angus.<\/p>\n<p>And we recorded it! I found an old cassette tape we made and thought it would be fun to share a bit of it. \u00a0Here, for your listening entertainment, is a short &#8220;Jenny Jones &amp; Company&#8221; compilation. You&#8217;ll see what songs were popular in 1980, and you&#8217;ll see why we never got a Grammy. \ud83d\ude42  &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/demo.jennyjones.com\/videos_vintage.shtml\" target=\"blank\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what happened in 1980: Mount St. Helens erupted, causing $3 billion in damages. Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back was released. Gas cost $1.19 a gallon. Pac-Man, the best selling arcade game of all time, was introduced. Vigdis Finnbogadottir was elected president of Iceland. CNN was officially launched. 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