{"id":5236,"date":"2025-08-08T17:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/?p=5236"},"modified":"2025-08-08T17:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T17:41:12","slug":"published-in-the-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/?p=5236","title":{"rendered":"Published in The Observer!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wrote a thing about how moved I was by seeing the Flaming Lips live in concert last year in Kansas City, which moved me literally to Omaha and Oklahoma City a few weeks later to catch them again on the same tour!  &#8220;<strong>My Summer Freakout&#8221;<\/strong>was published in the August issue of The Observer, and they also included photos I took: balloons overhead at the Kansas City concert, and the Yoshimi car ornament I made for my trip OKC.  If you haven&#8217;t read The Observer yet, check it out. It&#8217;s a newsletter for Flaming Lips fans, and includes news, concert updates, interviews and archival material, and submissions from fans like little ol&#8217; me. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The link is below. \u00a0To read my piece, scroll way way way down to &#8220;My Summer Freakout.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/cae8aa09bf98\/editorobserver1gmailcom-6425307?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaffRNlwqUjc_6f6l4CkdnqAwKrnuPhCrMcVSXbevD0VTWKsd0fHIgr8OpydGQ_aem_4ji-mdxJGemcjdVOxElYQw\">https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/cae8aa09bf98\/editorobserver1gmailcom-6425307?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAaffRNlwqUjc_6f6l4CkdnqAwKrnuPhCrMcVSXbevD0VTWKsd0fHIgr8OpydGQ_aem_4ji-mdxJGemcjdVOxElYQw<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote a thing about how moved I was by seeing the Flaming Lips live in concert last year in Kansas City, which moved me literally to Omaha and Oklahoma City a few weeks later to catch them again on the same tour! &#8220;My Summer Freakout&#8221;was published in the August issue of The Observer, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5236","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\/5236","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=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5240,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions\/5240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminglipslove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}