{"id":35656,"date":"2025-11-28T10:18:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=35656"},"modified":"2025-11-28T10:18:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:18:22","slug":"number-1-this-day-in-1987-ive-had-the-time-of-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2025\/11\/number-1-this-day-in-1987-ive-had-the-time-of-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Number 1 This Day In 1987 &#8211; &#8220;(I&#8217;ve Had) The Time Of My Life&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was this day in 1987\u00a0&#8220;(I&#8217;ve Had) The Time of My Life&#8221; goes to #1 on the charts.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to forget this song if you&#8217;ve ever seen the movie.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the song that plays at the end of Dirty Dancing when Jennifer Grey (Francis &#8220;Baby&#8221; Houseman) leaps in the arms of Patrick Swayze (Johnny Castle).\u00a0 That dance.\u00a0 That move.\u00a0 The stuff dreams are made of.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody puts Baby in a corner&#8221;.\u00a0 Who will forget that line?\u00a0 That moment.<\/p>\n<p>Franke Previte co-wrote the song specifically for the film, tailoring it to the 7-minute scene with a vocal open, slow build, and big finish.<\/p>\n<p>A great song from a great movie.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qjjNyUc8yAY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was this day in 1987\u00a0&#8220;(I&#8217;ve Had) The Time of My Life&#8221; goes to #1 on the charts. It&#8217;s hard to forget this song if you&#8217;ve ever seen the movie.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the song that plays at the end of Dirty Dancing when Jennifer Grey (Francis &#8220;Baby&#8221; Houseman) leaps in the arms of Patrick Swayze (Johnny","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":21360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[6190,4318,5356,5355],"class_list":["post-35656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-ive-had-the-time-of-my-life","tag-dirty-dancing","tag-jennifer-grey","tag-patrick-swayze"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 16:45:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2025\/11\/number-1-this-day-in-1987-ive-had-the-time-of-my-life\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35658,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35656\/revisions\/35658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}