{"id":21805,"date":"2015-02-10T16:07:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T16:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=21805"},"modified":"2015-02-10T16:07:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T16:07:50","slug":"face-it-live-music-kinda-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=21805","title":{"rendered":"Face It, Live Music Kinda Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href='http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/theslice\/live-music-is-terrible'>Let\u2019s start<\/a>: The musicians you don\u2019t know will bore you to death. Maybe you\u2019ve been dragged to the show of a random band and were totally blown away. It\u2019s happened to me! Maybe three whole times, across my entire life. But from a probability standpoint, any given stage will contain far more charisma-deficit oafs capably playing songs you have no emotional connection to, with harmonies that make you pinch your own arm for fun, and with sound run by a guy who is probably preoccupied by a flamewar he started on the local sound-guy messageboard. And you will watch all of this while having a stranger\u2019s entire beer spilled on you. There is no target audience for Dude In Hat Spilling An Entire Beer On You, and yet that\u2019s what we built this entire discipline of art upon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s start: The musicians you don\u2019t know will bore you to death. Maybe you\u2019ve been dragged to the show of a random band and were totally blown away. It\u2019s happened to me! Maybe three whole times, across my entire life. But from a probability standpoint, any given stage will contain far more charisma-deficit oafs capably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21806,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21805\/revisions\/21806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}