{"id":10960,"date":"2020-12-12T16:39:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T21:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=10960"},"modified":"2020-12-12T16:43:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T21:43:21","slug":"once-upon-a-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/10960","title":{"rendered":"Once Upon A Time&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=center>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kmmPFrkuPq0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><i>I remember skies<br \/>\nReflected in your eyes<br \/>\nI wonder where you are<br \/>\nI wonder if you think about me<br \/>\nOnce upon a time<br \/>\nIn your wildest dreams&#8230;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I played this Moody Blues song lots after it was released in 1986. I&#8217;d moved on from that first tragically magical gay teen high school crush by then, and was busy impaling myself on the second big crush of my life. But I was also beginning to learn by then that you never really forget that first one either. When Morgan Jon Fox asked me if I was willing to chip in some funding for a short he was making <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1aa9SttW0zk\"><em>The One You Never Forget<\/em><\/a> it was as much because of my own feelings for that time in my life as that Morgan is an amazing filmmaker that I did it. But unlike the boy in Morgan&#8217;s film, I never got to ask that first one to the prom, let alone take him. It was 1971. Even in a better world where gay teens could do that I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d have been the one he said yes to. He was a catch. I&#8217;d have had competition. And I was just this scrawny little geek from the other side of the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea where he was&#8230;I imagined that he&#8217;d gone back to the South American land of his birth and was having a wonderful love life of his own down there. I knew I&#8217;d just have to live with it, but at the same time, whenever the chance arose, I would make inquires, throw little messages in a bottle out to the emerging computer networked world. <em>Are you out there? Do you remember?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This one, and Ringo Starr&#8217;s <em>Photograph<\/em> really hit me with how it felt that he just suddenly vanished from my world, and I had no idea where he went, or what he thought about the times we managed to spend together, once upon a time. So of course they made it to the While Working On A Coming Out Story playlist I&#8217;m building. When I have something I&#8217;m satisfied with I&#8217;ll share it here. Like one of those embarrassing cassette mix tapes us kids used to give to our crushes back in the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember skies Reflected in your eyes I wonder where you are I wonder if you think about me Once upon a time In your wildest dreams&#8230; I played this Moody Blues song lots after it was released in 1986. I&#8217;d moved on from that first tragically magical gay teen high school crush by then, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[190],"class_list":["post-10960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-gay-kid-chronicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}