{"id":2784,"date":"2012-09-17T16:56:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T21:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2013-09-03T09:40:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T14:40:43","slug":"nostalgia-trippin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2784","title":{"rendered":"Nostalgia trippin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, so does it mean you&#8217;re old when just the <em>air<\/em> can cause waves of nostalgia to wash over you? Because I&#8217;m totally getting that right now. It&#8217;s\u00a0been a beautiful\u00a0fall\u00a0day, and the first real one as far as I&#8217;m concerned, because it&#8217;s just got that <em>feeling<\/em> to it. I love this weather, and it brings back memories of everything I&#8217;ve ever associated it with. I have no way to properly convey these feelings in words, but I can feel them in my heart and I need to get them out somehow, so I kept a running list of every\u00a0memory that came back to me today because of the cool autumn air. Here&#8217;s what I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trick-or-treating in general<\/li>\n<li>Beating\u00a0<strong>Army Men: Sarge&#8217;s Heroes<\/strong> for Nintendo 64 one Halloween night<\/li>\n<li>Playing <strong>Silent Hill<\/strong> for the first time<\/li>\n<li>Daily visits to\u00a0the Heath Sciences Center<\/li>\n<li>Watching Criminal Minds on Stephanie&#8217;s laptop in my car<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guitar Hero 5<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Visiting a small corner store downtown that smelled like curry, and buying Pepsis at said store which also smelled of curry<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Treehouse_of_Horror_(series)\">Treehouse of Horror<\/a><\/li>\n<li>YTV&#8217;s Dark Night specials<\/li>\n<li>McDonald&#8217;s Halloween McNugget toys<\/li>\n<li>Driving around with the family to look at Halloween houses<\/li>\n<li>That old McDonald&#8217;s Halloween cassette tape. &#8220;Spooky Sounds&#8221; or something of the like?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pok\u00e9mon Silver Version<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The beginning of Christmas madness at Toys &#8216;R&#8217; Us<\/li>\n<li><strong>Donkey Konga<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Traipsing through yards covered in crunchy, fallen leaves<\/li>\n<li>Finally earning my driver&#8217;s license<\/li>\n<li>Purchasing my first car (I still love you, Spirit)<\/li>\n<li>The beginning of hockey season, and all those dreadful practise sessions<\/li>\n<li>Carving jack-o-lanterns<\/li>\n<li>The last family trip to Fargo<\/li>\n<li>Chasing a bunch of egg-chucking hooligans down the street while dressed as the red\u00a0Angry Bird<\/li>\n<li>Playing <strong>Rock Band 2<\/strong> at a Halloween party, and my sister-in-law commenting at how intense I looked while I was playing<\/li>\n<li>Creating the alias &#8220;Tito Sanchez&#8221; for reasons I cannot recall<\/li>\n<li>Going to a corn maze and haunted house with a group of friends, and being thought of as a goofball (not in a good way)\u00a0by the females of the bunch.<\/li>\n<li>Playing <strong>Magical Starsign<\/strong> in the upstairs storeroom of Toys &#8216;R&#8217; Us instead of working<\/li>\n<li>My brother&#8217;s friend Brent dressing as a woman for Halloween, and being called &#8220;Brenta&#8221; for many years afterwards<\/li>\n<li>Not giving out free cookies to trick-or-treaters\u00a0at Tim Hortons<\/li>\n<li><strong>Silent Hill: Shattered Memories<\/strong>, for some reason. I don&#8217;t know why, because I never played that at Halloween time<\/li>\n<li>Pillsbury cookie rolls, with pumpkins coloured into them!<\/li>\n<li>Enjoying those cold, foggy mornings where nobody&#8217;s around and silence abounds<\/li>\n<li>The many times I said I&#8217;d participate in (or at least check out) a zombie walk, but never did<\/li>\n<li>Pumpkin pie<\/li>\n<li><em>The Nightmare Before Christmas<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><\/em>Specifically, &#8220;This is Halloween&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, so does it mean you&#8217;re old when just the air can cause waves of nostalgia to wash over you? Because I&#8217;m totally getting that right now. It&#8217;s\u00a0been a beautiful\u00a0fall\u00a0day, and the first real one as far as I&#8217;m concerned, because it&#8217;s just got that feeling to it. I love this weather, and it brings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=2784\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nostalgia trippin&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,18,26,22,28,21,14,29,15,23,41,20,27,6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b","category-film","category-foodstuffs","category-holidays","category-idiot-box","category-irl","category-music","category-outside-games","category-plastic-guitars","category-pokemon","category-pretty-ladies","category-retro-gaming","category-spooky","category-video-games","category-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3674,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions\/3674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}