{"id":13370,"date":"2014-03-24T09:57:37","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T14:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13370"},"modified":"2014-03-24T09:57:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T14:57:37","slug":"st-louis-presumes-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/24\/st-louis-presumes-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Presumes Too Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city of St. Louis is about to hand the keys of its kingdom to some out-of-town company promising to make St. Louis just like a Real City by having music festivals, and some writer at the <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em> dares, DARES <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/nick-pistor\/how-does-st-louis-proposed-music-festival-contract-compare-to\/article_371c24ea-c90e-5974-b762-343c7cb51deb.html\" target=\"_blank\">compare the music festivals to be named later to Summerfest in Milwaukee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Friends, Summerfest in Milwaukee is the best music festival <em>in the known inhabited planets of the galaxy<\/em>.  It has twelve hours of music daily for ten days in the summer, and it has, what, ten?  A dozen? stages with acts running almost constantly from local bands in the early afternoon to regional bands in the early evening to a national act headlining <em>each stage<\/em> at night.  And there&#8217;s a major national act at the Marcus Ampitheatre with attendant opening acts every evening.<\/p>\n<p>How dare does a St. Louisian compare anything St. Louis and its out-of-state lackeys can produce to Summerfest?<\/p>\n<p>Brothers and sisters, here is a potential list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/entertainment\/25-acts-likely-to-play-summerfest-2014-b99231083z1-251703101.html\" target=\"_blank\">of national acts likely to play Summerfest this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note that this list comprises the headline acts for the <em>ground stages<\/em> at the musical festival.  <em>Not the major acts booked to the Marcus Ampitheatre.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>QED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of St. Louis is about to hand the keys of its kingdom to some out-of-town company promising to make St. Louis just like a Real City by having music festivals, and some writer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch dares, DARES compare the music festivals to be named later to Summerfest in Milwaukee. Friends, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,14,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-milwaukee","category-music","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13373,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13370\/revisions\/13373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}