{"id":1544,"date":"2007-08-23T22:13:51","date_gmt":"2007-08-24T03:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2007-08-23T22:13:51","modified_gmt":"2007-08-24T03:13:51","slug":"paisley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1544","title":{"rendered":"Paisley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday on my drive home from work Joe called me, yelling at me to turn my radio to 99.5 FM (a country music station). I had a hard time finding it and when I did it was on a commercial. He was all excited because he was just on the air for winning a contest. &#8220;What did you win?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;Not sure, but I think concert tickets&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Turns out he won four tickets to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradpaisley.com\/\">Brad Paisley<\/a> concert (with Taylor Swift, Jack Ingram &#038; Kellie Pickler) this Sunday evening. However, he&#8217;s not really sure he wants to go since it&#8217;s a long drive and it doesn&#8217;t start until 7 pm. Plus that venue sucks. I don&#8217;t really want to get into it but they rip you off any chance they get. Anyway&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I asked him, &#8220;So if you really weren&#8217;t interested, why did you call in?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;I thought they were giving away $1000&#8221;.<br \/>\nOh Joe, you&#8217;re so pretty!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really a country fan, and if I had to pick a country artist to see in concert, I&#8217;d much rather see the Dixie Chicks, or better yet, my favorite country singer of all time, Kenny Chesney. However, a coworker told me Mr. Paisley, whose music I have never listened to in my life, puts on a good show, so I&#8217;m not sure what to do. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering if we should go just for the hell of it. After all, we&#8217;ve got four free tickets waiting for us at will-call. I just wish I knew how good the seats are. I imagine they must be close, right? Would you go to a concert with music you&#8217;re not that thrilled about and people who you don&#8217;t recognize just because you got free tickets, knowing you&#8217;ll be getting home late and have to get up early the next day? Not sure it&#8217;s worth the trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday on my drive home from work Joe called me, yelling at me to turn my radio to 99.5 FM (a country music station). I had a hard time finding it and when I did it was on a commercial. He was all excited because he was just on the air for winning a contest. &#8220;What did you win?&#8221; I asked. &#8220;Not sure, but I think concert tickets&#8221;. Turns out he won four tickets to the Brad Paisley concert (with Taylor Swift, Jack Ingram &#038; Kellie Pickler) this Sunday evening. However, he&#8217;s not really sure he wants to go since it&#8217;s a long drive and it doesn&#8217;t start until 7 pm. Plus that venue sucks. I don&#8217;t really want to get into it but they rip you off any chance they get. Anyway&#8230;. I asked him, &#8220;So if you really weren&#8217;t interested, why did you call in?&#8221; &#8220;I thought they <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1544\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}