{"id":4952,"date":"2010-08-13T13:54:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T13:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/13\/live-music-poll\/"},"modified":"2010-08-13T13:54:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T13:54:33","slug":"live-music-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/13\/live-music-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Music Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Whatever, one of Scalzi&#8217;s guest bloggers has posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2010\/08\/11\/the-rumpus-%E2%80%9Cbusting-at-its-seams%E2%80%9D-edition\/\">ginormous list of upcoming live music shows in the DC area<\/a>. This makes me sad, because when I used to live in the DC area, I was a grad student, and couldn&#8217;t afford to go to any of the dozens of great concerts that came through there. Now that I have plenty of money I could spend on live music, I live in Schenectady, where we don&#8217;t get anywhere near as many good shows, and I have a wife and child to boot, which makes it difficult to justify going out.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, whining aside, this seems like a good topic for a reader poll: What do you think of live shows by pop bands (&#8220;pop&#8221; here encompasses rock, soul, hip-hop, etc.&#8211; not classical, jazz, or other art music forms)? If you were in the DC area, and had plenty of cash to spare, would you go out to see live music?<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/3616571.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/3616571\/\">What do you think about live shows by pop music acts?<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">survey software<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>This poll isn&#8217;t big enough yet to have an opening act, so you can only choose one of the available options. But if this poll ever hits it big, you&#8217;ll be able to tell people you saw it before it was famous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at the Whatever, one of Scalzi&#8217;s guest bloggers has posted a ginormous list of upcoming live music shows in the DC area. This makes me sad, because when I used to live in the DC area, I was a grad student, and couldn&#8217;t afford to go to any of the dozens of great concerts&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/08\/13\/live-music-poll\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Live Music Poll<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,137,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-polls","category-pop_culture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}