{"id":211,"date":"2008-04-25T08:17:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T15:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2008-04-25T11:32:48","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T18:32:48","slug":"piano-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/25\/piano-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Piano class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; padding:10px; padding-left: 14px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/sitepics\/eltonjohn200804.jpg\"  alt=\"Elton John Concert April 24, 2008 O'Connell Center in Gainesville\" \/>Elton John arrived in Gainesville last night, after cancelling a previous show and postponing this one, both due to illness.<\/p>\n<p>After the first few songs, he did something I never expected:<\/p>\n<p>He <em>apologized.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I mean, think about it: here is a Knight of the Realm, a cultural icon who can justifiably be called a &#8220;mega-star&#8221;, a performer with more than fifty top-40 hits (nine of which made it to number one), and a well-known composer with multiple film scores to his credit&#8211; <strong>apologizing<\/strong> for events that were wholly beyond his control.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll make it up to you,&#8221; he promised, and he did, giving two-and-a-half hours of uninterrupted music to a wildly appreciative audience.<\/p>\n<p>Rarely have I seen such a display of grace and humility.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elton John arrived in Gainesville last night, after cancelling a previous show and postponing this one, both due to illness. After the first few songs, he did something I never expected: He apologized. I mean, think about it: here is a Knight of the Realm, a cultural icon who can justifiably be called a &#8220;mega-star&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}