{"id":481,"date":"2008-11-01T12:33:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T19:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=481"},"modified":"2008-11-02T00:53:57","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T07:53:57","slug":"the-return-of-the-sonics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=481","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Sonics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/pix-2008\/sonics-seattle-2008.png\" alt=\"Sonics in Seattle 2008, photo by ERIC PREDOEHL\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last night, <strong>the Sonics<\/strong> did their first performance in Seattle in 36 years.  It was definitely a historic moment, and I&#8217;m glad I spent the money to fly out for this one.   I ran into a lot of old friends, met some cyberspace pals, and made some new friends.  The show was literally a who&#8217;s-who type event for Seattle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Litltle Steven<\/strong> even showed up at this thing, and played a couple of songs with the Sonics.  Would you believe he only played <strong>Richard Berry<\/strong> songs?  Go figure&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/pix-2008\/sonics-steve-2008.png\" alt=\"Little Steven with Sonics 2008 photo by ERIC PREDOEHL\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more coverage of this event later, as I get more time to gather my thoughts, download the photos, and compare notes with others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, the Sonics did their first performance in Seattle in 36 years. It was definitely a historic moment, and I&#8217;m glad I spent the money to fly out for this one&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,27,22,24,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ep-world","category-garage-rock","category-louie-universe","category-24","category-pacific-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}