{"id":28016,"date":"2023-08-27T00:30:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T07:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=28016"},"modified":"2023-08-26T22:42:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T05:42:17","slug":"master-of-puppets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2023\/08\/master-of-puppets\/","title":{"rendered":"Master of Puppets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28017\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/238_7143-RAW-metallica-master-of-puppets-sofi-severe-noise.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28017\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/238_7143-RAW-metallica-master-of-puppets-sofi-severe-noise.jpg\" alt=\" metallica master of puppets sofi-severe-noise\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28017\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Metallica performing Master of Puppets @ Sofi Stadium (August 25, 2023)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>@Metallica #metallica @SoFiStadium<\/p>\n<p>Back in the early to mid 1980s I was a huge fan of Metallica. Ride the Lighting and Master of Puppets will always remain masterpieces in my opinion. Kill &#8216;Em All is also very good. Justice is just OK and then I lost all interest in everything that followed.<\/p>\n<p>The last time I saw them live was in the 1990s. I&#8217;ve had numerous chances to see them since and have passed. I&#8217;ve even been staying at the same hotel they were at a couple of times while traveling and still didn&#8217;t bother to attend. So seeing them in 2023 wasn&#8217;t exactly my idea, but I did finally get roped into seeing them again on the M72 World Tour&#8211;two nights with two totally different setlists. Tonight is night two.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is I still adore the Cliff Burton era stuff. The other good news is that if I need to pee, I have opportunities that I don&#8217;t have with bands that play only songs that I love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@Metallica #metallica @SoFiStadium Back in the early to mid 1980s I was a huge fan of Metallica. Ride the Lighting and Master of Puppets will always remain masterpieces in my opinion. Kill &#8216;Em All is also very good. Justice is just OK and then I lost all interest in everything that followed. The last time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[399,413,398,134,1103,1068,1010],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28016"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28021,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28016\/revisions\/28021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}