{"id":12317,"date":"2008-10-24T08:30:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T08:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/teddy_boys.html"},"modified":"2008-10-24T08:30:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T08:30:22","slug":"teddy_boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2008\/10\/24\/teddy_boys.html","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"width\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica\">A British youth subculture that first appeared in the 1950s; mainly from unskilled backgrounds, they adopted a pseudo-Edwardian dress code and rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll music.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My mother has long bragged that she was present at the first live performance of &quot;Rock Around the Clock&quot; performed by Bill Haley and the Comets. I&#8217;ve always thought that was pretty cool. An amusing comment she also frequently has made (paraphrased) &quot;is Who the hell was Buddy Holly?&quot; As someone who followed Rock and Roll pretty attentively during the 1950s my mother found it alarming to learn of Buddy Holly&#8217;s existence during the 1980s. She never heard of him! I am no student of that era but I think for some people Buddy Holly falls into the same category as a group like The Band, an influential group among other musicians but not particularly well known by their name. The poet Elizabeth Bishop is sometimes described in a similar way: The poet&#8217;s poet. The Band was the band&#8217;s band. I believe it was Joan Didion who described Norman Mailer as &quot;essential.&quot; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A British youth subculture that first appeared in the 1950s; mainly from unskilled backgrounds, they adopted a pseudo-Edwardian dress code and rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-word","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-3cF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}