{"id":839,"date":"2010-04-28T15:18:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T20:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/?p=839"},"modified":"2010-04-28T15:18:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T20:18:24","slug":"owl-city-live-at-the-dar-convention-hall-washington-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2010\/owl-city-live-at-the-dar-convention-hall-washington-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Owl City live at the DAR Convention Hall, Washington, DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wren and I have been looking forward to this for months, and last Thursday it happened.  It was absolutely perfect.  We were far up and above the left side of the stage for the first half, then moved down to a few rows back from the stage on the right.  Sounded great, the stage lights were great, and Adam kept us jumping and singing and shouting all night, playing keyboard solos, flinging a guitar around, and generally dancing about.  Woohoo!  Wrenny and I had to wait outside for Ma and Rei to get out of the emergency room (!) after, and we spent the time outside the tour bus, waiting to spot Adam, but we were denied a third sighting.  :><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wren and I have been looking forward to this for months, and last Thursday it happened. It was absolutely perfect. We were far up and above the left side of the stage for the first half, then moved down to a few rows back from the stage on the right. Sounded great, the stage lights &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2010\/owl-city-live-at-the-dar-convention-hall-washington-dc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Owl City live at the DAR Convention Hall, Washington, DC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-my-rowdy-friends","category-daily-life","category-heavy-rotation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-dx","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3050,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2020\/9-5-upload\/","url_meta":{"origin":839,"position":0},"title":"9.5 Upload","author":"m","date":"May 5, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Like a one night stand rebound, this show stepped in to save me from Westworld. 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