{"id":298,"date":"2012-04-27T14:55:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T21:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=298"},"modified":"2012-06-09T22:21:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T05:21:03","slug":"snow-patrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Snow Patrol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>I got to thinking about flexibility. Not the kind you learn in gymnastics class as a child, but the kind you learn in everyday life when things change, when you have to adapt. I was supposed to see my beloved band, Snow Patrol, in 2006. But timing changed all of that. The liquid bombings in London derailed Snow Patrol\u2019s travel plans, forcing them to cancel their appearance at the concert. I was devastated. This was my band. My exuberant smile turned to a frown the moment I found out Snow Patrol wasn\u2019t coming.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So I had to be flexible; I had to adapt. Let me tell you: that was no easy feat. And I\u2019ve been waiting and waiting for them to come back to the United States. A great person in my life found Snow Patrol\u2019s tour schedule a month ago and discovered they\u2019d be in the United States in May. We immediately bought tickets. All it took was five years of patience. To follow up my previous post, patience granted me my wish. And it was certainly worth the wait. In the words of Gary Lightbody: \u201cLight up, light up. As if you have a choice. Even if you cannot hear my voice. I\u2019ll be right beside you, dear.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to thinking about flexibility. Not the kind you learn in gymnastics class as a child, but the kind you learn in everyday life when things change, when you have to adapt. I was supposed to see my beloved &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/?p=298\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carolineadejong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}