{"id":13920,"date":"2004-09-30T17:14:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/30\/84-reasons-why-1984-was-the-best-year-ever\/"},"modified":"2004-09-30T17:14:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T17:14:00","slug":"84-reasons-why-1984-was-the-best-year-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/30\/84-reasons-why-1984-was-the-best-year-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"84 Reasons Why 1984 Was The Best Year Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its 25th anniversary celebration, ESPN has decided that <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/story?page=simmons\/040903\" target=\"_blank\">1984 was the single greatest year of the ESPN era<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&rsquo;m talking about a year that appealed to everybody, one of those years that just had it going &ndash; sports, movies, TV, pop culture, music, comedy, goofy subplots &ndash; and you were never, ever, EVER bored. I&rsquo;m talking about a groundbreaking year, with innovations just coming into their own, great actors hitting their stride, memorable rookies stepping onto center stage, maybe even some of the all-time legends making The Leap.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>1984 is one of my favorite years, although I remember it for a lot more than just sports.  I think it&rsquo;s definitely the best year of the &lsquo;80s as far as pop culture, movies, TV, and music goes, and since I&rsquo;m pretty much stuck in the &#8217;80s it follows that I would remember 1984 as my favorite year.  I&rsquo;m sure I could go on for a while about this, but that&rsquo;ll have to wait for another time.  What do you think; what&rsquo;s your favorite year?<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">kottke.org<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-109656445422639166?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its 25th anniversary celebration, ESPN has decided that 1984 was the single greatest year of the ESPN era: I&rsquo;m talking about a year that appealed to everybody, one of those years that just had it going &ndash; sports, movies, TV, pop culture, music, comedy, goofy subplots &ndash; and you were never, ever, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/30\/84-reasons-why-1984-was-the-best-year-ever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;84 Reasons Why 1984 Was The Best Year Ever&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}