{"id":4128,"date":"2013-06-21T11:18:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T15:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=4128"},"modified":"2013-06-21T11:18:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T15:18:40","slug":"preview-my-bonnaroo-2013-misadventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/21\/preview-my-bonnaroo-2013-misadventures\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: My Bonnaroo 2013 (Mis)adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a fascinating experience last week: an adventure \u2013 no, perhaps misadventure is a more apt descriptor \u2013 in which I traveled to the Bonnaroo Festival with six-to-eight fellow concertgoers. (With apologies to <strong>David Sedaris<\/strong>: \u201c<em>Six to eight<\/em>, you say?!\u201d But the fuzzy count was a function of the trip&#8217;s overall character.) The short-short story is that everything that could have possibly gone wrong, did. Flat tires, broken axles, tornado warnings, serious misunderstanding among friends, and &#8211; worst of all \u2013 missing my carefully-planned meeting with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=4044\"><strong>John McLaughlin<\/strong><\/a> by no more than fifteen minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The funny part is that despite all the pitfalls and pratfalls, the trip was a helluva lot of fun. I&#8217;ll be writing more about it soon, once I come to terms with how to cover some of the, er, more delicate elements of the saga. In the meantime, here are a few photos from the trip.<\/p>\n<p><center><object id=\"tech\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/roo2013.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"sameDomain\" \/><param name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><embed id=\"tech\" width=\"425\" height=\"319\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/roo2013.swf\" allowScriptAccess=\"sameDomain\" quality=\"high\" allowscriptaccess=\"sameDomain\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/object><\/center><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a fascinating experience last week: an adventure \u2013 no, perhaps misadventure is a more apt descriptor \u2013 in which I traveled to the Bonnaroo Festival with six-to-eight fellow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoir","cat-45-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}