{"id":4443,"date":"2009-09-14T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=4443"},"modified":"2021-06-10T11:37:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T15:37:40","slug":"2009-09-12-u2-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2009\/09\/14\/2009-09-12-u2-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"2009-09-12: U2 in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/vcastbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; We left for Chicago yesterday morning and returned this afternoon, for another pilgrimage to see U2. It was a great show as always, but I&#8217;m still of a mind that their best tours are the stripped down ones, like the Elevation tour, rather than this current one &#8212; which, like Pop Mart, threatens to dwarf or diminish the band with its huge, distracting, yet admittedly impressive stage.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; My photos are available here [originally at dot-Mac gallery,  then dot-Me gallery, and since moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHsjnX5vxZ\">an album on Flickr<\/a> and here&#8217;s a collection of clips off my Cyber-shot camera.<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G086-EMaHos\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center>&nbsp; &nbsp; <b>Note<\/b>: (Originally uploaded September 13 but revised, re-edited, and re-uploaded September 15.)\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; We left for Chicago yesterday morning and returned this afternoon, for another pilgrimage to see U2. It was a great show as always, but I&#8217;m still of a mind that their best tours are the stripped down ones, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2009\/09\/14\/2009-09-12-u2-in-chicago\/\">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":[16,27,30,32,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","category-photos","category-podcast","category-u2","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443","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=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4445,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions\/4445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}