{"id":573894560,"date":"2022-07-08T21:20:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T01:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573894560"},"modified":"2022-07-13T15:37:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T19:37:54","slug":"handle-me-with-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2022\/07\/08\/handle-me-with-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Handle Me With Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sharing video this week from the Toad the  Wet Sprocket, Gin Blossoms, Barenaked Ladies show we saw last Friday night. As I mentioned here, this is making up for a 2020 show. We bought these tickets in 2019. It was supposed to happen again in 2021, but, finally, here wer were last Friday. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d never seen Toad the Wet Sprocket, somehow, but always wanted to. Gin Blossoms I hadn&#8217;t seen since college. BNL we saw in 2018, and last week was the fourth or fifth time I&#8217;ve seen them. <\/p>\n<p>And then they came out for a one-song encore, an ensemble of all three bands,  Something of a supergroup covering The Supergroup. There are 18 platinum, nine gold and one diamond records and something like 30 million total sales and 20 top 10 singles between them. I bet the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelingwilburys.com\/history\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wilbury<\/a> step-brothers would approve of this.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mLJuTIaiAzk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It came as a surprise to me how much I enjoyed that, how happy that song would sound, how happy it&#8217;d make me feel.<\/p>\n<p>We left the venue saying it was a great show, saying it was all worth the wait. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been sharing video this week from the Toad the Wet Sprocket, Gin Blossoms, Barenaked Ladies show we saw last Friday night. As I mentioned here, this is making up for a 2020 show. We bought these tickets in 2019. It was supposed to happen again in 2021, but, finally, here wer were last Friday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14,39,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573894560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-friday","category-music","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573894560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573894560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573894560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573894561,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573894560\/revisions\/573894561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573894560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573894560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573894560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}