{"id":5182,"date":"2025-07-31T01:55:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/?p=5182"},"modified":"2025-07-31T02:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:11:29","slug":"chicago-or-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/?p=5182","title":{"rendered":"Chicago or Bust!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Flaming Lips will be at the Salt Shed on August 16th and so will I. Now the countdown has begun! I&#8217;m also looking forward to seeing Modest Mouse too, but the Lips are the reason I&#8217;m dropping some Benjamins on a flight and hotel to get my ass to Chi-town for the show. I hope to claim a spot near the front and I plan to come home with more confetti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first night of the American tour is Friday and I&#8217;m more than curious to see what the set list will be. Some of my favorite songs to hear live are Spoonful Weighs a Ton, What is the Light, Pompeii am G\u00f6tterd\u00e4mmerung, and Gold in the Mountain of their Minds. And Fight Test and Yoshimi, of course. Giant, inflatable pink robots can never get old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Pink Robots during &quot;Fight Test&quot; -The Flaming Lips live at Outlandia - Omaha, Nebraska (8\/9\/24)\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f0dbSwX3_BY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Flaming Lips will be at the Salt Shed on August 16th and so will I. Now the countdown has begun! I&#8217;m also looking forward to seeing Modest Mouse too, but the Lips are the reason I&#8217;m dropping some Benjamins on a flight and hotel to get my ass to Chi-town for the show. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diggin-it"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5214,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5182\/revisions\/5214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}