{"id":425,"date":"2006-10-11T00:10:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T00:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2006-10-11T00:10:27","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T00:10:27","slug":"always-time-for-the-guru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Always Time For The Guru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime readers will remember <a href=http:\/\/www.additiverich.com\/morgue\/archives\/001190.html>this post<\/a> from back in February.  It was when I was doing my ten fave pics from my North American travels, and featured Aaron and the legendary Guru Josh.<br \/>\nWhen Aaron arrived in Wellington a short while ago, he gifted me with a bunch of pimped-up Dodge Darts from his now-legendary farewell bash, and the actual one-and-only Guru Josh record featured in that photo.<br \/>\nI listened to it today.  Oh, man.  There&#8217;s a nice sax line in it, and&#8230;  well, that&#8217;s about all.  It is a thing of beauty.  I adore it.  I may never listen to it again.<br \/>\nBut then the power of YouTube exposed us both to something we never expected: the video accompanying the single.<br \/>\nWow.  It&#8217;s the perfect transition from 80s electronic pop videos to 90s dance hall raver stuff.  All these big-haired women and singlet-clad guys who had walked straight out of a Cyndi Lauper video and were going apeshit to the Guru Josh sound.  At the centre of things, our man, Guru Josh, holding court, whispering &#8220;1990s Time For The Gurah&#8221; into the mike, and grinning like a simpleton as he tapped out the melody on the keyboard.  All this with bad 80s fashion and a little samurai pony-tail.<br \/>\nBut don&#8217;t take my word for it.  Go check out <a href=http:\/\/wanisan.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/guru-josh-infinity.html>Aaron&#8217;s adoring Guru fanboy post<\/a> &#8211; he&#8217;s linked to the video.  Experience Guru Josh for yourself.  And remember &#8211; 1990s &#8211; Time for the Gurah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime readers will remember this post from back in February. It was when I was doing my ten fave pics from my North American travels, and featured Aaron and the legendary Guru Josh. When Aaron arrived in Wellington a short while ago, he gifted me with a bunch of pimped-up Dodge Darts from his now-legendary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=425\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Always Time For The Guru<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-6R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}