{"id":1276,"date":"2011-09-19T21:45:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T03:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2011-09-19T21:45:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T03:45:49","slug":"one-or-the-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2011\/09\/19\/one-or-the-other\/","title":{"rendered":"One or the Other"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I set up my chair when I get to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Austin_City_Limits_Music_Festival\">ACL<\/a>. I set up my chair far back from the AMD stage, where I can sit in middle-aged comfort and look around and take out my notebook and jot a few notes while I wait for the music to start.<\/p>\n<p>And then the skies darken. And rain starts falling from the sky. And the throngs of people all over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.austin.tx.us\/zilker\/\">Zilker Park<\/a> hold their hands up and cheer.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the rain, they start cheering. Or &#8230; maybe it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s 2:00 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youngthegiant.com\/\">Young the Giant<\/a> is coming on stage. No &#8230; it must be the rain. It hasn&#8217;t rained here forever, and the skies are black, and we&#8217;re all soaking wet. And all of the people around me feel that way. Or maybe they&#8217;re all cheering the band.\u00a0It&#8217;s either one or the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I set up my chair when I get to ACL. I set up my chair far back from the AMD stage, where I can sit in middle-aged comfort and look around and take out my notebook and jot a few notes while I wait for the music to start. And then the skies darken. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,34,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}