{"id":48,"date":"2004-09-17T16:36:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-17T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com.php53-14.ord1-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2004-09-17T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-17T16:36:00","slug":"on-the-importance-of-being-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"On the importance of being early"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>or,<br \/>\n<br \/>My anal retentive maternal upbringing strikes again.<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s the first day of the Austin City Limits Music Festival, and I got here before the gates were even open.  I woke up wide awake as a kid on Christmas morning, 9 a.m. sharp.  I haven&#8217;t even done that on Christmas in a decade, maybe more.  I made a couple of stops before heading downtown (where lights will be shinin&#8217;) and grabbed the special shuttle to take me over to Zilker Park.  It had the same feeling of happiness for me that I get when I go on vacations and wander off by myself, as I have done in San Francisco and London.  It was a wonderful feeling to experience that here in my adopted hometown.  Waiting in line at the gate, I ran into a dear freind, also on her own for a while.  More dear friends are coming.  Great music is coming.  A wonderful adventure, a relaxing weekend, a lifetime memory is about to occur, and the one thing I am happiest about?<\/p>\n<p>The first 1000 people here get a free misting pocket fan.  Mom, you were right, it&#8217;s good to be early.<\/p>\n<p>Rock and Roll beckons&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>or, My anal retentive maternal upbringing strikes again. So it&#8217;s the first day of the Austin City Limits Music Festival, and I got here before the gates were even open. I woke up wide awake as a kid on Christmas morning, 9 a.m. sharp. I haven&#8217;t even done that on Christmas in a decade, maybe &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/?p=48\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On the importance of being early<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cloudwrangler.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}