{"id":8879,"date":"2020-04-26T11:53:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-26T15:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=8879"},"modified":"2020-04-26T17:40:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T21:40:47","slug":"live-performances-in-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/26\/live-performances-in-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Live performances in the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/0425202011_HDR-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/0425202011_HDR-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/0425202011_HDR-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/0425202011_HDR-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/0425202011_HDR-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/0425202011_HDR-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Tom Smith, streaming live on Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This COVID-19 pandemic has upended life as we knew it.  Bars, night clubs and theaters are closed.  Where does one go for live entertainment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To your laptop, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last night, for the first time ever, I tuned in to a live performance on Facebook.  The performer was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsmithmusic.com\/\">Tom Smith<\/a>, a college friend who spent a lot of time in college honing his guitar-playing and folk-song-singing skills.  Now, retired after a long career teaching yung&#8217;uns, he has taken up folk singing as a retirement career.  And he is pretty darn good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I watched him in a live performance last night.  Very entertaining.  Kudos, Tom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This COVID-19 pandemic has upended life as we knew it. Bars, night clubs and theaters are closed. Where does one go for live entertainment? To your laptop, of course. Last night, for the first time ever, I tuned in to a live performance on Facebook. The performer was Tom Smith, a college friend who spent &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/26\/live-performances-in-the-pandemic\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rv-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-2jd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8936,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8879\/revisions\/8936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}