{"id":30511,"date":"2022-11-21T16:13:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T22:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30511"},"modified":"2022-11-21T08:25:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T14:25:32","slug":"they-see-me-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/21\/they-see-me-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"They See Me Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2022\/11\/18\/billy-joel-stevie-nicks-perform-arrowhead-stadium\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Billy Joel, Stevie Nicks to perform at Arrowhead Stadium<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Things I would have thought it impossible to say twenty years ago:  <em>It&#8217;s been over twenty years since I saw Billy Joel in concert.<\/em>  Which is true: It was his 2000 Years tour.  Back when I was a technical writer and worked at DRA.  He played at the arena in St. Louis, Savvis Center I think it was called then.<\/p>\n<p>But 20 years have passed, and I&#8217;m not sure how keen I am to drive three hours to sit in a stadium to watch him.  Which is more a testament to my aging and getting to be nearly a senior citizen in that time.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, all bets are off if Herb Alpert comes within a three hour drive of me.  But that would be at a more intimate venue.  I think I&#8217;m just out of the age of stadium concerts.  Not that I&#8217;ve ever been to a concert in a big stadium anyway.  Perhaps I never was of that age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Joel, Stevie Nicks to perform at Arrowhead Stadium Things I would have thought it impossible to say twenty years ago: It&#8217;s been over twenty years since I saw Billy Joel in concert. Which is true: It was his 2000 Years tour. Back when I was a technical writer and worked at DRA. He played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30511","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=30511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30512,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30511\/revisions\/30512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}