{"id":299,"date":"2010-02-13T09:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2010-02-13T09:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-13T16:34:00","slug":"judge-judy-presiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Judge Judy Presiding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Readers, <\/p>\n<p>Some time ago, the rock band The White Stripes flew into Whitehorse to play a concert. I wasn&#8217;t a fan, I&#8217;d barely heard their music and I didn&#8217;t even really know how big they are in the music world, which is huge.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime after their arrival, I got a call from a friend who is also a local reporter. &#8220;The White Stripes are going to play an impromptu concert in one hour at Lepage Park. Go.&#8221; I went. They played, it was a crazy scene and I really dug the performance.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I dug <i>his<\/i> performance. Jack White. He was dynamic and obviously really talented, not to mention <i>hot<\/i>. Then there was his sister, Meg. She sat on the ground beside him, hardly moving, never speaking, occasionally shaking a couple of percussive instruments.<\/p>\n<p>As much as I hate to admit this, I wrote her off as lame.<\/p>\n<p>Last night at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yukonfilmsociety.com\/alff\/\">ALFF<\/a>, I watched <i>The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights<\/i>, the documentary that was made as the band toured Canada. The footage includes the stop they made in our fair city and the Lepage park concert. It&#8217;s a great film.<\/p>\n<p>For two hours I watched this gal, Meg, whose character I had totally assassinated, wail on the drums with the speed and virtuosity of a true maestro. It was <i>astonishing<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>After the movie was over I cut myself a great big piece of humble pie and ate the whole thing, bite by bite.<\/p>\n<p>Inspiring Message of the Day: <a href=\"http:\/\/cultivateyourcourage.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/diviners.html\"><i><b>The Diviners<\/b><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dearest Readers, Some time ago, the rock band The White Stripes flew into Whitehorse to play a concert. I wasn&#8217;t a fan, I&#8217;d barely heard their music and I didn&#8217;t even really know how big they are in the music world, which is huge. Sometime after their arrival, I got a call from a friend&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,146,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-judge-not-lest-ye-are-judged","category-motivation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celiamcbride.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}