{"id":889,"date":"2008-01-26T23:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2008\/01\/26\/friends-places\/"},"modified":"2011-01-22T14:06:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T22:06:27","slug":"friends-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2008\/01\/26\/friends-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends, Places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron, Ryan, and Garth.  Tonight&#8217;s installment of the Holliday brothers&#8217; concert tour led to the Staples Center for Garth Brook&#8217;s fourth of five concerts in a two-day period.  <a href=\"\/journal\/2005\/11\/10\/u2-treasure-hunt\/\">As usual<\/a> it was a bit of an ordeal aquiring tickets &#8211; when they went on sale I got on Ticketmaster&#8217;s web site early, timed it so that I hit submit the millisecond tickets went on sale, but instead of getting good seats I was treated to a &#8220;Sorry, a system error has occurred&#8221; message.  By the time I had re-submitted the request the tickets were sold out.  But then a second show was added,  and then a third.  I finally got seats for the fourth show, and they were good ones.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the show:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A two minute long &#8220;yee haw&#8221; fest outside of the Staples Center before the concert.  Folks were pumped up.<\/li>\n<li>The loudest and most enthusiastic crowd of any concert I&#8217;ve ever attended.<\/li>\n<li>Tricia Yearwood coming out for a song, and then not being allowed to leave due to the cheers.<\/li>\n<li>A kid sitting near the front holding a &#8220;Please sign my hat&#8221; sign.  As Garth was leaving he looked at the kid, and shortly after the lights came up someone came out from backstage, talked to the kid&#8217;s father, and then took the kid backstage.  About two thousand people sitting in the area cheered so loudly that everyone leaving Staples stopped, thinking there was going to be a third encore.  Further cheers followed when another guy emerged from backstage and brought the father back.<\/li>\n<li>The second encore, during which Garth brought out one of the food service ladies from backstage.  He said that she asked him what it&#8217;s like to be on stage in front of so many people, and he figured the best way to answer something is to &#8220;jump in with both feet&#8221;.  She apparently asked him to sing &#8220;Ring of Fire&#8221; &#8211; obviously not the biggest Garth fan out there &#8211; but he sang another song that the crowd enjoyed, then took her to the middle of the stage, told her &#8220;this will be cool&#8221;, and then told everyone to take a picture on the count of three.  After the flashes died down he said that in case she didn&#8217;t get a copy of the photo he wanted to make sure she had something to remember, and she left the stage in tears and wearing his hat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A good time, and well-worth the ridicule from co-workers about being a country music fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron, Ryan, and Garth. Tonight&#8217;s installment of the Holliday brothers&#8217; concert tour led to the Staples Center for Garth Brook&#8217;s fourth of five concerts in a two-day period. As usual it was a bit of an ordeal aquiring tickets &#8211; when they went on sale I got on Ticketmaster&#8217;s web site early, timed it so &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2008\/01\/26\/friends-places\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friends, Places&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/2573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}