{"id":11010,"date":"2015-07-24T07:29:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T12:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=11010"},"modified":"2015-07-24T07:30:37","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T12:30:37","slug":"growingupcanadian-generation-x-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2015\/07\/24\/growingupcanadian-generation-x-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"#GrowingUpCanadian: Generation X edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/span>hile we were waiting for the rain to let up in PEI, I was surfing Facebook (I’d rather be surfing the actual sea!) and came across this BuzzFeed article about a new trending hashtag on #GrowingUpCanadian<\/a>. I should have known I was not the target demographic audience when the first point made reference to autocorrect, but yeesh – I have no idea what *most* of these things are.<\/p>\n

So, my Gen X bloggy peeps, let’s do this properly. Never mind the millennial edition, what did it mean for you to be #GrowingUpCanadian in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s?<\/p>\n

I’ll start! #GrowingUpCanadian in the 1970s meant:<\/p>\n

Wanting Fran to see you in her magic mirror on Romper Room.<\/p>\n

Dreaming of being featured on Tiny Talent Time (I was back in London last summer and tickled to see that CHCH has relaunched a new version of this old favourite of mine.)<\/p>\n

\"Credit:You know the theme song that starts:<\/p>\n

There’s a voice that keeps on calling me
\nDown the road, that’s where I’ll always be.
\nEvery stop I make, I make a new friend,
\nCan’t stay for long, just turn around and I’m gone again
\nMaybe tomorrow, I’ll want to settle down,
\nUntil tomorrow, I’ll just keep moving on.<\/p>\n

You slow danced to Bryan Adams’ Heaven at the school dance.<\/p>\n

Coveting the breakfast cereals you could see on commercials but not get in Canada.<\/p>\n

You wrote a school project about Terry Fox.<\/p>\n

Wearing Beaver Canoe and Roots long before the Americans discovered them.<\/p>\n

You brought boxes of Kraft Dinner to throw at the stage during a BNL concert.<\/p>\n

You had a crush on JD Roberts or Erica Ehm.<\/p>\n

Your favourite snack foods were Hostess ketchup chips and Pop Shoppe pop (lime was my favourite!)<\/p>\n

Beloved grew up in Windsor and is a few years younger than me, so I asked him for his input. I laughed out loud when he said, “Bear wrestling on CBC.” Um, okay, I’ll have to take his word on that one – somehow that escaped my cultural experience.<\/p>\n

Okay, that’s all I could come up with off the top of my head. What about you? What defines #GrowingUpCanadian from your childhood?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While we were waiting for the rain to let up in PEI, I was surfing Facebook (I’d rather be surfing the actual sea!) and came across this BuzzFeed article about a new trending hashtag on #GrowingUpCanadian. I should have known I was not the target demographic audience when the first point made reference to autocorrect, … Continue reading “#GrowingUpCanadian: Generation X edition”<\/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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadianisms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11010"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11020,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11010\/revisions\/11020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}