{"id":3570,"date":"2005-11-11T21:39:36","date_gmt":"2005-11-12T05:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/11\/11\/reconnecting\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T15:03:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T23:03:41","slug":"reconnecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/11\/11\/reconnecting\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconnecting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7471,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.anchoragepress.com\\\/archives\\\/document3f78.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20070223111531\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.anchoragepress.com:80\\\/archives\\\/document3f78.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 21:20:35&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 12:30:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 18:48:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 05:53:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 05:53:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>This is great.<\/p>\n<p>Some time ago &#8212; back in April of &#8217;04 &#8212; I came across an old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anchoragepress.com\/archives\/document3f78.html\" title=\"The Anchorage Press: The Decline of Northern Civilization, Part I\">Anchorage Press article<\/a> talking about the &#8220;glory days&#8221; of the underground\/punk\/alternative music scene in Anchorage, from the late &#8217;70&#8217;s up to the early &#8217;90&#8217;s, which touched off <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/back_when_ancho.html\" title=\"Eclecticism: Back when Anchorage was cool\">my own post<\/a> reminiscing about <em>my<\/em> days running around the local scene, from the &#8217;90&#8217;s to the early 2000&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Touched off by a couple of random Google searches, over the past couple of weeks (starting <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/back_when_ancho.html#comment-8348\" title=\"Cameron: Memory lane, not much left of it.\">in August<\/a>, and really picking up steam <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/04\/back_when_ancho.html#comment-24520\" title=\"mark watson: hi, i remember a lot of you folks from mid 80s...\">in November<\/a>), that post has become an impromptu meeting point and simple message board for quite a few of the Anchorage scenesters of the &#8217;80&#8217;s. While I was just a few years younger and don&#8217;t know any of the people who&#8217;ve been posting, I have been having an absolute blast watching all the various comments come in as this group of old friends re-connect after twenty-odd years or so.<\/p>\n<p>All I did was provide the right Google keywords and a comment form that these guys have been using to get back in touch&#8230;but it&#8217;s enough to get a grin on my face whenever I see another comment roll in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Touched off by a couple of random Google searches, over the past couple of weeks, a post of mine has become an impromptu meeting point and simple message board for quite a few of the Anchorage scenesters of the &#8217;80&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2040,2043],"tags":[58,13],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-personal","tag-internet","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}