{"id":33558,"date":"2026-07-09T14:33:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=33558"},"modified":"2026-07-09T14:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:35:54","slug":"10-years-ago-today-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/10-years-ago-today-8\/","title":{"rendered":"10 years ago today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_33559\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/167_5507-DNG-uli-jon-roth-metal-magic-festival-severe-noise.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33559\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/167_5507-DNG-uli-jon-roth-metal-magic-festival-severe-noise.jpg\" alt=\"uli jon roth metal magic festival\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33559\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uli Jon Roth @ 2016 Metal Magic Festival<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;I boarded a train for the other side of Denmark, to a place I&#8217;d never been before, to see\/hear this man. &#8220;Taken By Force&#8221; was (and still is) one of my favorite albums of all time. That day\/night was transformative for me. Not just because I finally got to see <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/uli-jon-roth\/>Uli live<\/a>, but because I was introduced to the wonders of the <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/tag\/metal-magic-festival\/>Metal Magic Festival<\/a>. I&#8217;ve been back five times since, and would go every year, regardless of who is on the bill, were it not for the distance.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Uli and Metal Magic for all of the memories.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Uli is playing at the 2026 Metal Magic Festival tomorrow night!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I boarded a train for the other side of Denmark, to a place I&#8217;d never been before, to see\/hear this man. &#8220;Taken By Force&#8221; was (and still is) one of my favorite albums of all time. That day\/night was transformative for me. Not just because I finally got to see Uli live, but because I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[413,134,606,594,595,607],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33558"}],"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=33558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33562,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33558\/revisions\/33562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}