{"id":54,"date":"2004-11-22T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-22T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.195.124.246\/~wisecon1\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2004-11-22T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-22T15:06:00","slug":"u2_on_broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"U2 on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tedbongiovanni.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/picture10.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=288,height=352,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Picture10\" title=\"Picture10\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tedbongiovanni.typepad.com\/wise_contradictions\/images\/picture10.jpg?resize=100%2C122\" width=\"100\" height=\"122\" border=\"1\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" \/><\/a> Unos, dos, tres, catorce [1,2,3,14]<\/p>\n<p>Turn it up loud, captain!  &#8211; from Vertigo, u2&#8217;s new album.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nI&#8217;m at my desk like any other day, and I hear a band outside.  It&#8217;s not uncommon&#8211;bands play on the quad at Columbia all the time.  I thought I recognized the beat&#8211;but I didn&#8217;t know the song.  Then I looked outside.  I put the beat with the image&#8211;&#8220;that&#8217;s U2!!!!&#8221;  I sprinted down the stairs and into the street.  It looks like they&#8217;re filming a new video for their how to dismantle an atomic bomb.  They&#8217;re on a tractor trailer driving down Broadway.  I ran with the band (and throngs of other fans, happy-struck by their good fortune) from 116th St. to 110th.    See the <a href=\"http:\/\/tedbongiovanni.typepad.com\/photos\/u2\/index.html\">Photo Album<\/a> for pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unos, dos, tres, catorce [1,2,3,14] Turn it up loud, captain! &#8211; from Vertigo, u2&#8217;s new album. &#8212; I&#8217;m at my desk like any other day, and I hear a band outside. It&#8217;s not uncommon&#8211;bands play on the quad at Columbia all the time. I thought I recognized the beat&#8211;but I didn&#8217;t know the song. Then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wisecontradictions.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}