{"id":1489,"date":"2006-06-02T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/02\/get-ready-to-wiggle\/"},"modified":"2006-06-02T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-03T03:00:00","slug":"get-ready-to-wiggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/02\/get-ready-to-wiggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready to Wiggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today at 10am, tickets for the July 30th &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewiggles.com.au\/country\/usa\/concerts.html#aug2006\">Wiggles Live<\/a>&#8221; performance in Mobile Civic Center Arena went on sale.  We called the ticket office; by 10:30 they&#8217;d sold over 1000 tickets and were expecting to sell out today.  My parents were very excited about the prospect of taking Will &#8212; so much so, that they were contemplating going for the $125 per ticket price of sitting on the center floor in front of the stage.  The power of a grandchild is apparently quite intense.  (Seriously.  $125 a ticket.  To see <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Wiggles<\/span>.)<\/p>\n<p>We talked them out of it.  Final tally: 3 tickets, $123 via ticketmaster.  5 rows up a riser on the arena floor, perpendicular to the stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today at 10am, tickets for the July 30th &#8220;Wiggles Live&#8221; performance in Mobile Civic Center Arena went on sale. We called the ticket office; by 10:30 they&#8217;d sold over 1000 tickets and were expecting to sell out today. My parents were very excited about the prospect of taking Will &#8212; so much so, that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}