{"id":2619,"date":"2010-03-07T14:20:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T21:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2010-03-07T18:55:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T01:55:52","slug":"beer-back-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/07\/beer-back-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer, Back Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Green Room, High Dive by Nerd's Eye View, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/4415051014\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4063\/4415051014_a4b2a7bfff.jpg\" alt=\"Green Room, High Dive\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not on my list of things to accomplish? Drink cheap beer back stage at a divey bar and then, play in a &#8220;band&#8221; on stage at said bar. Nonetheless, if that&#8217;s not on your to-do list for this lifetime, I highly recommend you add it, pronto. If you&#8217;re in a city famous for music &#8212; Nashville, Austin, Seattle, or New York City, so much the better.<\/p>\n<p>Vintage aloha shirt from Goodwill, silk flower <em>haku<\/em> lei from a neighbor, PBR from an ice bucket marked &#8220;Band Beer Only.&#8221; Ukulele (not pictured) by Pono via Scotty&#8217;s Music on Kauai. The setting, the green room, painted a sticky and unnerving shade of blue and furnished with a couch that would benefit from being set on fire, the walls covered with stickers, obscene graffiti, and despair.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, it was awesome, thanks for asking, and, as I keep saying at practice, &#8220;We&#8217;re not getting any worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not on my list of things to accomplish? Drink cheap beer back stage at a divey bar and then, play in a &#8220;band&#8221; on stage at said bar. Nonetheless, if that&#8217;s not on your to-do list for this lifetime, I highly recommend you add it, pronto. If you&#8217;re in a city famous for music &#8212; &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Beer, Back Stage\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/07\/beer-back-stage\/#more-2619\" aria-label=\"Read more about Beer, Back Stage\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[702,701,315,700,69],"class_list":["post-2619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ukulele","tag-coconut-humu","tag-high-dive","tag-music","tag-performance","tag-uketopia","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2629,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions\/2629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}