{"id":6876,"date":"2024-05-06T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6876"},"modified":"2024-05-06T16:16:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T16:16:00","slug":"thunder-road-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6876","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title is of course one of <span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Bruce Springsteen&#8217;s<\/strong> <\/span>anthems.<\/p>\n<p>What a great night in <strong>Cardiff<\/strong> watching <span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong><em>The Boss<\/em> <\/strong><\/span>with probably 70,000 other people! He and the <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><em>E Street Band\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span> are superb performers and for three hours they never flagged in energy. One song followed seamlessly after another. His songs are so well crafted and the band are excellent musicians. The expanded brass section certainly made a significant difference. The <strong>Principality Stadium<\/strong> certainly rocked! I do enjoy the buzz of being in a large and expectant crowd. There was both pure rock and roll classic numbers and some poignant songs from his must recent album that reflect on his mortality.\u00a0 Some pictures from phone below!<\/p>\n<p>We have a few more gigs for different performers booked over the next months- nothing beats live performance! I have to say that as Storyteller who thrives on an audience!<\/p>\n<p>Hoping to play cricket tomorrow against <strong>Oxfordshire<\/strong> (thunderstorms are forecasted there today!) In my little boy excitement of the first game of the season. 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What a great night in Cardiff watching The Boss with probably 70,000 other people! He and the E Street Band\u00a0 are superb performers and for three hours they never flagged &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6876\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2D5Gc-1MU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6882,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions\/6882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestorytraveller.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}