{"id":446,"date":"2008-08-22T10:30:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T14:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/?p=446"},"modified":"2008-08-22T13:40:11","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T17:40:11","slug":"well-that-just-sucks-real-life-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/2008\/08\/22\/well-that-just-sucks-real-life-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Well that just sucks (real life post)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard today that LeRoi Moore of the Dave Matthews Band died this week. (link <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080820\/ap_on_en_mu\/obit_leroi_moore\">http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080820\/ap_on_en_mu\/obit_leroi_moore<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p>I saw the band play in 1998 twice.  Once in the now Wachovia Center in Philly, and once at the now Tweeter Center in Camden, NJ.  For the Camden concert, I and two of my friend from High School were in the 4th row, right in front of the violinist.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout High School, and even into college, I was into jazz music.  In High School, I played the alto and tenor saxophone.  I even did marching band (yes I know, I&#8217;m a nerd) with a tenor sax, until the weight just started to hurt my back by too much and I had to use something lighter (and switched to clarinet for half of the time).<\/p>\n<p>I can safely say that LeRoi was one of my heroes of the time.  He showed us what you could do with a woodwind, and that the sax and flute had a place in popular music.<\/p>\n<p>I will miss him.  He was my favorite member of what was my favorite band throughout High School and much of College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard today that LeRoi Moore of the Dave Matthews Band died this week. (link http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080820\/ap_on_en_mu\/obit_leroi_moore ) I saw the band play in 1998 twice. Once in the now Wachovia Center in Philly, and once at the now Tweeter Center &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/2008\/08\/22\/well-that-just-sucks-real-life-post\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[135,136,174],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-life","tag-high-school","tag-leroi-moore","tag-real-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sphericality.org\/pyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}