{"id":507,"date":"2007-09-24T15:13:34","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T22:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/24\/summer_is_history.html"},"modified":"2007-09-24T15:31:22","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T22:31:22","slug":"summer_is_history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/24\/summer_is_history.html","title":{"rendered":"Summer is history"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; padding-bottom:6px; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/btmeacham\/1433102163\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1339\/1433102163_595f0554b3.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\n\tIt&#8217;s official, this time: we went to the Los Angeles County Fair yesterday, the last of the fairs in the area this summer, and enjoyed a long day of deep fried Oreos &#8211; one was one too many &#8211; fish tacos, beer samplers, and photobooths.  Lots of pigs, goats, sheep, and breakdancers on roller skates, as well.  <\/p>\n<p>We followed that up with our last Hollywood Bowl show of what has been a great summer of concerts, with Rufus Wainwright and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra replicating the 1961 Judy Garland Carnegie Hall show (or was it her Hollywood Bowl show?  I guess not, since she didn&#8217;t release a record of that concert).  Anyway, whatever it was, it was a terrific show; I&#8217;m not much of a Judy Garland fan, but the songs were great, lots of standards with full orchestra and jazz combo &#8211; with the legendary Bucky Pizzarelli, at 81, on guitar &#8211; and the amazing instrument that is Rufus Wainwright&#8217;s voice.  He brought his very talented family with him on stage for a few numbers &#8211; his sister Martha singing &#8220;Stormy Weather&#8221; was a highlight &#8211; and the show was a really great experience.  We had out best Bowl seats yet, actual seats, with an actual view of a tiny corner of the Hollywood sign through the hills.  We brought out the duvet, and I&#8217;m off to Rochester for AMIA tomorrow, so it must be fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s official, this time: we went to the Los Angeles County Fair yesterday, the last of the fairs in the area this summer, and enjoyed a long day of deep fried Oreos &#8211; one was one too many &#8211; fish tacos, beer samplers, and photobooths. Lots of pigs, goats, sheep, and breakdancers on roller skates, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los_angeles","category-music","category-photobooths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}