{"id":200,"date":"2003-01-30T23:55:51","date_gmt":"2003-01-30T23:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/01\/wynton_marsalis\/"},"modified":"2003-01-30T23:55:51","modified_gmt":"2003-01-30T23:55:51","slug":"wynton_marsalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/wynton_marsalis\/","title":{"rendered":"Wynton Marsalis in the Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very long day has just about ended. Starting with a five o&#8217;clock taxi for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rajar.co.uk\">RAJAR<\/a> (down basically &#8211; thanks for asking).<br \/>\nLater on, the weather took a turn for the worse, and by the time it came to the highlight of my day, a Barbican concert given by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyntonmarsalis.net\">aforementioned<\/a> and the <a href=\"www.jazzatlincolncenter.org\">Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra<\/a>, the snow was really coming down.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a strange relationship that Britain has with snow. We live in a climate where it&#8217;s not unusual, yet the slightest downfall and everything grinds to a halt.  It was crowded getting on the tube, and by the time I got to Kings Cross, they decided to close the station altogether. The Barbican is two stops from Kings Cross, so I thought about a bus, but it was snowing, and buses were packed with long queues.<br \/>\nHalf an hour later, freezing cold, I arrived at the Barbican Concert Hall.<br \/>\nThe concert was wonderful, featuring the music of Benny Goodman. I enjoyed every toe-tapping minute of it. My cheap ticket (the lowest price available) also seemed to secure me a front row wing seat which wasn&#8217;t at all bad.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll spare the details of the trip home, which needless to say, was equally as fraught. At least it&#8217;s not quite midnight yet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very long day has just about ended. Starting with a five o&#8217;clock taxi for RAJAR (down basically &#8211; thanks for asking). Later on, the weather took a turn for the worse, and by the time it came to the highlight of my day, a Barbican concert given by the aforementioned and the Lincoln Center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}