{"id":1027,"date":"2005-07-03T14:13:05","date_gmt":"2005-07-03T05:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2005-07-04T12:29:51","modified_gmt":"2005-07-04T03:29:51","slug":"live8-i-think-they-got-the-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/03\/live8-i-think-they-got-the-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Live8: I think they got the message!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,6903,1520255,00.html\">Nine concerts<\/a>, hundreds of artists, millions of spectators all over the world&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I think the G8 bigwigs got the message loud and clear: this generation as a whole is still able to stand up, rise, and demonstrate its love of pop music concerts. especially free ones.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and also they think poverty&#8217;s bad and people dying of starvation during evening news is like, so not cool, you know.<\/p>\n<p>I think we are nearly there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: All right, maybe I was a bit hasty in my conclusions. <em>Three billions<\/em> telespectators, ought to show that this generation does not merely love attending pop music concerts: it is also perfectly happy sitting at home on a couch and watching them on the telly. Wow, take that poverty!<br \/>\nAnd yea, I think this figure is pure bullshit too, but I read it on the interweb, so it must be true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine concerts, hundreds of artists, millions of spectators all over the world&#8230; I think the G8 bigwigs got the message loud and clear: this generation as a whole is still able to stand up, rise, and demonstrate its love of pop music concerts. especially free ones. Oh, and also they think poverty&#8217;s bad and people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-le-sigh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}