{"id":45,"date":"2010-11-20T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.249.26.136\/wordpress\/?p=45"},"modified":"2010-11-20T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T16:52:00","slug":"1290289920000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Concert Etiquette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just came from our area&#8217;s Area All-State music concert in which Brady was participating.&nbsp; I&#8217;m too young to be so &quot;get offa my lawn&quot; about this sort of thing, but there are some standards that simply ought to apply at any such venue, especially when you&#8217;re paying for tickets.&nbsp; To wit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Show up on time, or you miss the first number.&nbsp; When the performance begins, no one should be allowed entrance to the auditorium.&nbsp; Period.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t care if your child is on stage right now.&nbsp; If it was that important, you would have been there on time.&nbsp; People entering the auditorium are a distraction to those of us who did manage to get there on time.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of distractions; along with politely asking us to silence our electronic devices, attendees should be admonished to silence their very young children or to remove them if that&#8217;s not possible.&nbsp; I have paid money to listen to a concert, not to someone else&#8217;s children cry, ask all kinds of questions, or make all kinds of observations about the obvious.&nbsp; When my children were that age, we either didn&#8217;t attend such events, found sitters, or ensured that they stayed quiet (or left if they couldn&#8217;t).&nbsp; Even if it weren&#8217;t common courtesy, this is of especial importance when the event is being recorded!&nbsp; At least two numbers this afternoon ended abruptly only to have some toddler&#8217;s babbling continue in what otherwise would have been the silence between the final note and the applause.&nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>I know I&#8217;ve lost this war, but I&#8217;ll never stop fighting.&nbsp; At least one girl on stage was wearing flip-flops.&nbsp; They weren&#8217;t even the &quot;fancy&quot; kind that could, arguably, be considered &quot;sandals&quot;!&nbsp; Words fail me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nMy grousing aside, the concert was fantastic!&nbsp; Now I&#8217;m off to check my lawn.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came from our area&#8217;s Area All-State music concert in which Brady was participating.&nbsp; I&#8217;m too young to be so &quot;get offa my lawn&quot; about this sort of thing, but there are some standards that simply ought to apply at any such venue, especially when you&#8217;re paying for tickets.&nbsp; To wit: Show up on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-peeves"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeyn.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}