{"id":1873,"date":"2011-12-23T17:13:46","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T22:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2011-12-23T17:13:46","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T22:13:46","slug":"a-weird-new-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/23\/a-weird-new-years\/","title":{"rendered":"A Weird New Years&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate <strong>New Years<\/strong>, <em>Oklahoma City<\/em> has what it calls, <em><strong>&#8220;Opening Night&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> on <em>New Year&#8217;s Eve<\/em>&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0This event takes place in the section of <strong>OKC<\/strong> called, <em>&#8220;Bricktown&#8221;<\/em>&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0There&#8217;s music, food, entertainment, and fireworks&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0This year they&#8217;ve got two headliner music acts &#8211; <em><strong>The Flaming Lips<\/strong><\/em>, which is an <em>Oklahoma<\/em> group that made it fairly big, and, get this, which I still don&#8217;t believe &#8211; <em><strong>Yoko Ono<\/strong><\/em> (I pronounce it <em>&#8220;Oh-No&#8221;<\/em>) <em><strong>and The Plastic Ono Band<\/strong><\/em> with <strong>Sean Lennon<\/strong>&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0<em>I&#8217;m speechless<\/em> &#8211; I mean I didn&#8217;t think that there were more than a handful of people in the whole state of <em>Oklahoma<\/em> who had ever even heard of <em><strong>The Plastic Ono Band<\/strong><\/em>&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Maybe the ones that booked the gig have never heard her <em>sing<\/em> (I use the term loosely)&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0On the other side &#8211; <em>Why<\/em> would anybody that&#8217;s internationally known want to perform in <strong>OKC<\/strong>?&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0<em>Truth is definitely stranger than fiction<\/em>&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I wouldn&#8217;t mind going just to check it out, but, at <em><strong>$120 a ticket<\/strong><\/em>, I think I&#8217;ll have to pass&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I do know they&#8217;re not advertising it much &#8211; I caught it on the news&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m going to check into it further as I would like to know just how this all came about &#8211; <em><strong>I&#8217;m stunned<\/strong><\/em>!&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate New Years, Oklahoma City has what it calls, &#8220;Opening Night&#8221; on New Year&#8217;s Eve&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0This event takes place in the section of OKC called, &#8220;Bricktown&#8221;&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0There&#8217;s music, food, entertainment, and fireworks&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0This year they&#8217;ve got two headliner music acts &#8211; The Flaming Lips, which is an Oklahoma group that made it fairly big, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,2,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1874,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}