{"id":56,"date":"2008-12-31T13:32:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T21:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elearning4bradford.edublogs.org\/?p=56"},"modified":"2008-12-31T13:32:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T21:32:28","slug":"best-moment-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Best Event of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3189\/2682168146_2aa1aa9fb2.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"Leonard at the O2 Arena\" width=\"295\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My best moment of 2008 was seeing Leonard Cohen at the O2 Arena in London in July. A wonderful performer with a voice like a double Bushmills in a smokey bar. He was blatantly honest about his motives for getting back on the stage after 15 years; filling the arena he told us quite simply he needed the money. His accountant had pulled a few tricks and left the poet and songwriter pretty desolate after a lifetime of entertaining. The size of the audience the price of the tickets and the number of gigs he did will mean he can spend a few more nights in a Chelsea hotel room. His song Hallelujah which was the UK Christmas number 1 hit, should generate some royalties too. A good year for Leonard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My best moment of 2008 was seeing Leonard Cohen at the O2 Arena in London in July. A wonderful performer with a voice like a double Bushmills in a smokey bar. He was blatantly honest about his motives for getting back on the stage after 15 years; filling the arena he told us quite simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}