{"id":214,"date":"2009-07-01T18:20:51","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T23:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=214"},"modified":"2009-07-01T18:20:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T23:20:51","slug":"2009-jazz-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"2009 Jazz fest."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 30th edition of the Jazz fest was launched last night with the traditional free outdoor concert. The performer was Stevie Wonder.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/stevie.jpg\" title=\"stevie.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/jazz.jpg\" title=\"jazz.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/jazz.jpg\" alt=\"jazz.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am of two minds when it comes to attending those events. There is an excitement and energy in those crowds&#8230;but there are also stomped on toes, spilled beer, lots of time spent waiting on your feet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But I went to this one&#8230;There were giant screens set up everywhere and,\u00a0 of course, pleanty of speakers&#8230; so no matter where you were you could enjoy the concert.<\/p>\n<p>Stevie started the concert with an homage to Michael Jackson&#8230;and played several of his songs but my favorite part was nearer to the end when he played his own best known hits.<\/p>\n<p>It was a fun evening&#8230;.wet but fun&#8230;.people were dancing and singing along&#8230;.I will never know what the guy behind me was smoking&#8230;but boy did it stink! My bet goes to corn silk &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/stevie.jpg\" title=\"stevie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/stevie.jpg\" alt=\"stevie.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/stevie2.jpg\" title=\"stevie2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/stevie2.jpg\" alt=\"stevie2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/stevie.jpg\" title=\"stevie.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 30th edition of the Jazz fest was launched last night with the traditional free outdoor concert. The performer was Stevie Wonder. I am of two minds when it comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyingplates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}