{"id":42,"date":"2002-08-08T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-09T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=42"},"modified":"2021-05-15T22:39:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T02:39:21","slug":"the-high-price-of-concert-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2002\/08\/08\/the-high-price-of-concert-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"The High Price of Concert Tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/musicbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\" \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; I recently saw an unexpected Buffett mention in an AOL article titled &#8220;Millions Given to Tyco&#8217;s Ex-CEO&#8221;. Along with filching $6,000 for a <i>shower curtain<\/i>, &#8220;[l]ast summer, Tyco picked up half the tab for a $2.1 million trip to the Italian island of Sardinia, [according to the <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i>]. The central event was a 40th birthday party for [Tyco Chairman and Chief Executive Dennis] Kozlowski&#8217;s wife, Karen, with a performance by singer Jimmy Buffett.&#8221;<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; And <i>I<\/i> thought scalper prices were bad!\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I recently saw an unexpected Buffett mention in an AOL article titled &#8220;Millions Given to Tyco&#8217;s Ex-CEO&#8221;. Along with filching $6,000 for a shower curtain, &#8220;[l]ast summer, Tyco picked up half the tab for a $2.1 million trip &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2002\/08\/08\/the-high-price-of-concert-tickets\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buffett","category-music","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}