{"id":7250,"date":"2016-03-05T07:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/?p=7250"},"modified":"2016-03-02T12:26:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T18:26:25","slug":"saturday-morning-cartoons-the-country-urban-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2016\/03\/05\/saturday-morning-cartoons-the-country-urban-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Country Urban Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7251\" style=\"width: 412px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/kidswb.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7251\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7251\" class=\" wp-image-7251\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/kidswb-300x168.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo: https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/v_dXpJvNyyA\/maxresdefault.jpg\" width=\"402\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/v_dXpJvNyyA\/maxresdefault.jpg<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ask most people in the United States what they did as kids between the hours of 7:00am and 11:00am on Saturday mornings, and they will answer you \u201cI turned on the TV to watch Saturday morning cartoons.\u201d No, not everyone enjoyed this blissful weekend activity, but for the (for everyone&#8217;s sake, hopefully) majority of Americans who did, the thought of Saturday morning cartoons brings a sense of nostalgia and happiness not easily replicated by many ideas. Whether they watched Nickelodeon, the Disney Channel, Kids WB, Fox, PBS, or local TV, most people think fondly of the times when they hurried to the couch at 6:58 and caught the end of a poorly-made infomercial. Though to most people, country music seems to evoke thoughts of trucks, beer, and romance, country music makes me think of the little things in life. I think of the commonalities people of different backgrounds share with each other, and of the things that can simplify our hectic lives. Is there anything that fits that description more than Saturday morning cartoons?<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7253\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/scooby-doo-cowboy.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7253\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7253\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7253\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2016\/02\/scooby-doo-cowboy.jpeg\" alt=\"Photo: http:\/\/image.blingee.com\/images19\/content\/output\/000\/000\/000\/7cd\/787180849_973534.gif\" width=\"265\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: http:\/\/image.blingee.com\/images19\/content\/output\/000\/000\/000\/7cd\/787180849_973534.gif<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I ran down every Saturday at 6:58 to avoid missing the opening seconds of Scooby-Doo. After Scooby-Doo, and Yu-Gi-Oh!, I ran to my room to get dressed and brush my teeth. I was a Kids WB guy, but I made sure to watch Fox when Digimon came on. After one episode on Fox, I returned to WB to watch Jackie Chan\u2019s Adventures and, of course, Pokemon. Breakfast usually came in between Digimon and Jackie Chan\u2019s Adventures, but I made sure to sit in position to watch the show while eating. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Pok\u00e9mon Season 1: Indigo League - Opening Theme\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6xKWiCMKKJg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Although my TV schedule changed several times (I\u2019m not even sure if the one written above is 100% accurate), I always loved cartoon time. Other shows that I remember liking are Transformers, Saved by the Bell, and especially Batman Beyond, so somehow and at some point those shows made it into the Saturday morning lineup. In a world in which not everyone enjoys the taste of beer and more and more people choose to drive environmentally conscious vehicles, country music is going to have to choose whether it is the music of the people, or the music of a people. Historically, it made the switch from \u201chillbilly music\u201d to \u201cmiddle class music\u201d to become something with which more people can identify. Luke Bryan even wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cydGNrdzMm8\" target=\"_blank\">song<\/a> about country music&#8217;s ruralization. Certain songs by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uWu4aynBK7E\" target=\"_blank\">Kenny Chesney<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3YfNFR6gh2E\" target=\"_blank\">Kip Moore<\/a>\u00a0have\u00a0shown the\u00a0more rural side of\u00a0country music, but I for one do not identify with many of their all of their ideals. I\u2019m a die-hard patriot so I identify with Patriot songs, but even having grown up in Texas, never had to work on a farm or . George Strait once sang about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/georgestrait\/checkyesorno.html\" target=\"_blank\">passing notes in class<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/dariusrucker\/alright.html\" target=\"_blank\">Darius Rucker&#8217;s &#8220;Alright&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/philvassar\/justanotherdayinparadise.html\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Vasser\u2019s \u201cJust Another Day in Paradise\u201d<\/a> very much talk about the day-to-day activities that make life worth living. A song about Saturday morning cartoons would fit right in.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask most people in the United States what they did as kids between the hours of 7:00am and 11:00am on Saturday mornings, and they will answer you \u201cI turned on the TV to watch Saturday morning cartoons.\u201d No, not everyone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/2016\/03\/05\/saturday-morning-cartoons-the-country-urban-bridge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[30,132,38,173,174,40,175,172],"class_list":["post-7250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post-3","tag-country","tag-george-strait","tag-kenny-chesney","tag-kids-wb","tag-kip-moore","tag-luke-bryan","tag-phil-vasser","tag-saturday-morning-cartoons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7250"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7435,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250\/revisions\/7435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/countrymusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}