{"id":212,"date":"2009-01-27T12:23:59","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T17:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adambryson.com\/?p=212"},"modified":"2009-01-27T12:23:59","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T17:23:59","slug":"tourists-musicians-and-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/2009\/01\/27\/tourists-musicians-and-cowboys\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists, Musicians and Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few nights ago, Craig Ferguson was in town for a one night stand up comedy show. I seriously thought about getting tickets to go but blew it off. I like the guy on TV but didn&#8217;t feel like blowing a couple hundred bucks to see him on stage.<\/p>\n<p>So last night he was back on TV and talked about coming to Nashville. He had a show in St. Louis the night before and for reasons unstated he drove from St. Louis to Nashville. I can tell you the reason &#8211; you can&#8217;t get a decent flight from St. Louis to Nashville. It actually faster and a whole lot cheaper to rent a car and drive the 5 hours through Illinois and Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>So his routine last night was all about the predictable Nashville jokes. He joked on the guys wearing cowboy hats and belts with big buckles. He joked the women wearing fur &#8211; except they wear it because they were the ones who killed and skinned the animals. Ha ha.<\/p>\n<p>Truth is, Nashville is a pretty cosmopolitan city. It is the state capital and the county seat, and the downtown is full of lawyers, bankers, stockbrokers and real estate companies. Plus publishing, healthcare and, don&#8217;t forget, music business professionals. You have to drive out of town quite a ways to find any farms or ranches.<\/p>\n<p>The only people downtown who wear cowboy hats and big buckles are the tourists, a handful of musicians, noobs, and maybe 1 out of 100 will be a &#8220;real&#8221; cowboy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few nights ago, Craig Ferguson was in town for a one night stand up comedy show. I seriously thought about getting tickets to go but blew it off. I like the guy on TV but didn&#8217;t feel like blowing a couple hundred bucks to see him on stage. So last night he was back &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/2009\/01\/27\/tourists-musicians-and-cowboys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tourists, Musicians and Cowboys&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-town","category-tv-and-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/adambriteson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}