{"id":326,"date":"2006-12-01T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/2006\/12\/01\/piano-man\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T14:45:00","slug":"piano-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/2006\/12\/01\/piano-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Piano Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We saw Billy Joel in concert last night.<\/p>\n<p>I had never seen such perfection, such beauty and energy in a performer. The voice hasn&#8217;t changed a bit! There wasn&#8217;t a single song I didn&#8217;t like, not a single mistake, not a sign of weariness. I almost cried when he sang &#8216;Honesty&#8217;&#8230; and it was only the third song!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/2842\/196\/1600\/223979\/IMG_0259.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px;text-align: center;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger\/2842\/196\/400\/342473\/IMG_0259.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>After the concert we were left speechless, in a dream-like state. Had this been real? Aren&#8217;t we still occupying two seats in the Tokyo Dome, waiting for something to happen?<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe we had actually been awake then, only to go back to a troublesome sleep full of strange nightmares. If so, how fortunate of us to have that voice lingering in our heads!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We saw Billy Joel in concert last night. I had never seen such perfection, such beauty and energy in a performer. The voice hasn&#8217;t changed a bit! There wasn&#8217;t a single song I didn&#8217;t like, not a single mistake, not a sign of weariness. I almost cried when he sang &#8216;Honesty&#8217;&#8230; and it was only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olaviakite.com\/maianebula\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}