{"id":666,"date":"2009-05-12T19:14:12","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T00:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2009\/05\/12\/the-last-show\/"},"modified":"2009-05-12T22:52:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T03:52:23","slug":"the-last-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2009\/05\/12\/the-last-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The last show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting in the Senior High auditorium for the last time right now. Tonight is Shannon&#8217;s final orchestra concert after 7 years of musical education. I think out of all that time, I&#8217;ve missed two of her shows.<\/p>\n<p>The high school orchestra has mostly consisted of about 800 violins, cellos and violas, and about 4 or 5 wind instruments. Shannon plays clarinet. Only once in the 4 years of high school have I been able to see her, because the instructor tucks the winds way at the back.<\/p>\n<p>But tonight is different. Tonight she&#8217;ll be called up to sign the Big Yellow Bass as is traditional for departing seniors and receive her Letter. I think it will be lovely.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about 8 minutes to showtime. The stage is empty but I can hear strains of instruments coming from the nearby bandroom. The seats are filling up and we are ready to enjoy the likes of Bartok, Mozart and Bach.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t think of a better ending to my birthday \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I wrote the above stuff as I sat waiting for the show to begin (I heart my iPod Touch). Below, I&#8217;ve added some audio I took as well as some pix.<\/p>\n<p>The first song:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"390\" height=\"104\" data=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/player_mp3.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"mp3=http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/18825-sounds-from-the-last-orchestra-show.mp3\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/player_mp3.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The last song:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"390\" height=\"104\" data=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/player_mp3.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"mp3=http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/18840-the-last-song.mp3\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/player_mp3.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Shannon talks about the last concert:<br \/>\n<object width=\"390\" height=\"104\" data=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/player_mp3.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"mp3=http:\/\/audioboo.fm\/boos\/18856-the-kid-talks-about-her-last-show.mp3\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/boos.audioboo.fm\/player_mp3.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-666 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lastconcert.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lastconcert-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lastconcert1.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lastconcert1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lastconcert2.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lastconcert2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lastconcert3.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/lastconcert3-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting in the Senior High auditorium for the last time right now. Tonight is Shannon&#8217;s final orchestra concert after 7 years of musical education. I think out of all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42],"tags":[215,216],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}