{"id":4084,"date":"2023-04-10T08:18:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T05:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kongano.com\/?p=4084"},"modified":"2023-04-10T08:18:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T05:18:40","slug":"what-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kongano.com\/?p=4084","title":{"rendered":"What If&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>31\/9\/1983<\/p>\n<p>Dave M. exits the liquer store. He\u2019s about to celebrate quitting his crummy job. After some serious setbacks in his life, things seem to be finally going in to the right direction. In his wallet is a newspaper ad for a cheap Hollywood apartment. Perfect headquarters to live and start a new band.<\/p>\n<p>On his way back to the car, Dave M. slips in a banana peel. Only with great agility he avoids landing in a pool of very suspicious looking liquid. What poor Dave M. doesn\u2019t realize, is that his wallet has somehow slipped from the back pocket of his very tight jeans. Financial loss: 3.50$.<\/p>\n<p>9\/3\/1984<\/p>\n<p>Dave E. grows increasingly frustrated practicing \u201cRunnin\u2019 with the Devil\u201d by Van Halen. He has tamed the song alright, but playing just by himself feels so pointless. He puts his bass down, and looks sadly out the window of his cheap Hollywood apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly a brainstorm hits: \u201cScrew this\u201d, he says to himself. \u201cI\u2019m stayin\u2019 solo!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>12\/7\/1985<\/p>\n<p>Crumpy Grampa Records Ltd. releases \u201cThe Spirit Of The New Age\u201d by Dave E. The album goes highly unnoticed, but it\u2019s opening track \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kongano.com\/?page_id=36\">DAVES HOLIDAY MOOD<\/a>\u201d receives heavy airplay in Akron, Ohio. The song eventually becomes a much loved holiday stable in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>31\/9\/1983 Dave M. exits the liquer store. He\u2019s about to celebrate quitting his crummy job. After some serious setbacks in his life, things seem to be finally going in to the right direction. In his wallet is a newspaper ad for a cheap Hollywood apartment. Perfect headquarters to live and start a new band. On &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kongano.com\/?p=4084\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What If&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kongano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kongano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kongano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kongano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kongano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kongano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4085,"href":"https:\/\/kongano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4084\/revisions\/4085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kongano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kongano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kongano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}