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<\/a>To wrap up the year, I headed to the Chicago Theatre to see John Oliver on New Year’s Eve.\u00a0 It was the perfect New Year’s Eve for someone my age, with the show starting around 7:30, wrapping up by 9:00, and allowing me to drive home and be in the house by 10:00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During 2022, I managed to get out three different times, taking in my first post-pandemic concert and play and my second comedy show. In June, I attended my first concert since 2019.\u00a0 Garbage was opening for Tears for Fears at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre and I made a last-minute decision to attend.\u00a0 I hadn’t been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,87],"tags":[275,2402,668,298,183,7534,5837,6397,1252],"class_list":["post-19860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy","category-music","tag-arm","tag-chicago-theatre","tag-clue","tag-dlm","tag-garbage","tag-hollywood-casino-amphitheater","tag-john-oliver","tag-new-years-eve","tag-tears-for-fears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19860"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19873,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19860\/revisions\/19873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>In June, I attended my first concert since 2019.\u00a0 Garbage was opening for Tears for Fears at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre and I made a last-minute decision to attend.\u00a0 I hadn’t been to this particular venue since 2017, despite it being the closest to my house.\u00a0 After a nice set from Garbage<\/a>, I stuck around for the first part of Tears for Fears’ set.\u00a0 The songs I knew from them were evenly split between the beginning of the show and the end, so I stayed for the first five songs they performed, hearing Everybody Wants to Rule the World<\/em> and Sowing the Seeds of Love<\/em> before leaving.\u00a0 Without the crowds, I was able to get from my seat to my house in about a half hour.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/clue-play.jpg\")
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