{"id":911,"date":"2005-06-28T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/?p=911"},"modified":"2022-01-29T22:20:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T14:20:15","slug":"live-8-the-long-walk-to-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/live-8-the-long-walk-to-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"LIVE 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><s>http:\/\/www.live8live.com\/<\/s><\/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 loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (Recorded at Live 8)\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kFn8x4TnzKY?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><figcaption>for everyone who&#8217;s not here, and particularly, of course, for Syd.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"live-8-2-july-2005\">Live 8, 2 July 2005<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I saw the Boomtown Rats playing at the Apollo Theatre, Oxford back in 1979 I never in my wildest dreams thought Bob Geldorf would end up being knighted and using music as a force for good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s very easy to knock &#8216;worthy causes&#8217; but if millions (billions?) of people can make enough noise to send a message that extreme poverty can be iradicated and should be iradicated. Then I for one am all for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As &#8216;Sir&#8217; Bob said &#8220;It&#8217;s not about politics it&#8217;s about morality.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update 2022:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good intentions &#8211; didn&#8217;t make any real difference though &#8211; but the music was great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Live_8\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Live_8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.live8live.com\/ Live 8, 2 July 2005 When I saw the Boomtown Rats playing at the Apollo Theatre, Oxford back in 1979 I never in my wildest dreams thought Bob Geldorf would end up being knighted and using music as a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/live-8-the-long-walk-to-justice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress2blogger"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}