{"id":405,"date":"2006-12-29T13:58:43","date_gmt":"2006-12-29T21:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2006-12-29T14:06:04","modified_gmt":"2006-12-29T22:06:04","slug":"best-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Best Buy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Just a few minutes ago I was griping to my husband about the cost of an evening&#8217;s entertainment.  A &#8216;reasonably-priced&#8217; meal for two, with one cocktail and a glass of wine each, followed by concert or club admission easily reaches the $200 mark. That&#8217;s fine if you&#8217;re earning a hefty income&#8230;or if you only go out on rare occasion. Thankfully, we do alright and go out when we want, but that doesn&#8217;t make me unaware.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Don&#8217;t get me wrong. I do understand the high cost of presenting entertainment, especially if the artists are paid well, though often that&#8217;s not the case. Still, prices do go up&#8230;.and up&#8230;.and up. (Whatever happened to &#8220;that which goes up must also come down&#8221; ?)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I wish everybody could enjoy an evening&#8217;s entertainment regardless of their economic status &#8212; in fact, I think that the have-nots might benefit more from the experience than those who have fewer worries. But that&#8217;s another subject for another day.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Regardless of your income, if you are a jazz lover in New York with $5 and a free lunch hour on Wednesday, January 3rd &#8211; 1-2 PM, make your way over to <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.saintpeters.org\/index.html\">Saint Peter&#8217;s Church<\/a> <\/strong>(E. 54th St. &#038; Lexington Ave.) for the MIDTOWN JAZZ AT MIDDAY concert featuring soprano saxophonist  <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzsuite.com\/\">BILL KIRCHNER<\/a><\/strong> and pianist <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.juniormance.com\/index.php\">JUNIOR MANCE<\/a><\/strong>. I can&#8217;t think of a better way &#8212; or more affordable &#8212; to spend a lunch hour at the start of the year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few minutes ago I was griping to my husband about the cost of an evening&#8217;s entertainment. A &#8216;reasonably-priced&#8217; meal for two, with one cocktail and a glass of wine each, followed by concert or club admission easily reaches the $200 mark. That&#8217;s fine if you&#8217;re earning a hefty income&#8230;or if you only go &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/?p=405\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Best Buy!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-timely-thoughts","category-jazz-ears"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.devradowrite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}