{"id":341931,"date":"2010-02-19T16:06:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834519bc269e20120a8b7ffe1970b"},"modified":"2010-02-19T16:06:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:06:49","slug":"30-years-later-sharona-alperin-still-makes-most-of-my-sharona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/341931","title":{"rendered":"30 years later, Sharona Alperin still makes most of &#8216;My Sharona&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysharona.com\/\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sharona\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d834519bc269e201310f1ef130970c \" src=\"http:\/\/brandmediaweek.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834519bc269e201310f1ef130970c-250wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; width: 250px;\"><\/img><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>If the lead singer of a band wrote a song about me and it became a massive hit, you better believe I&#8217;d play that &quot;rock muse&quot; card at every opportunity. It&#8217;s no different for Sharona Alperin, who was the inspiration behind the Knack&#8217;s summer-of-&#8217;79 hit, &quot;My Sharona.&quot; Alperin sells high-end real estate in Los Angeles these days, advertising her services with a Web site that plays the instantly recognizable rock anthem. It&#8217;s even called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysharona.com\/\" >MySharona.com<\/a>. Because her former boyfriend and Knack frontman Doug Fieger died last weekend, the spotlight&#8217;s been shining on the band&#8217;s most memorable tune\u2014and, with it, the brunette beauty on the single&#8217;s cover. She still gets a lot of those covers in the mail, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-sharona18-2010feb18,0,7513553.story\" >Alperin says in a <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> story<\/a>, and she sends them back autographed. Maybe she tucks in her business card, too, for those who might be looking for a luxury condo in Santa Monica. Now that&#8217;s catchy branding. <\/p>\n<p>\u2014Posted by T.L. Stanley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the lead singer of a band wrote a song about me and it became a massive hit, you better believe I&#8217;d play that &quot;rock muse&quot; card at every opportunity. It&#8217;s no different for Sharona Alperin, who was the inspiration behind the Knack&#8217;s summer-of-&#8217;79 hit, &quot;My Sharona.&quot; Alperin sells high-end real estate in Los Angeles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}