{"id":33879,"date":"2026-09-11T01:20:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=33879"},"modified":"2026-09-06T09:40:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T16:40:45","slug":"two-years-ago-today-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2026\/09\/two-years-ago-today-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Two years ago today&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_33880\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/249_4752-RAW-King-Gizzard-the-Lizard-Wizard-edgefield-low-light.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33880\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/249_4752-RAW-King-Gizzard-the-Lizard-Wizard-edgefield-low-light.jpg\" alt=\"King Gizzard &amp; the Lizard Wizard edgefield\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">King Gizzard &#038; the Lizard Wizard @ Edgefield (September 11, 2024)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;I was more wet in my clothes than at any other time in my life.<\/p>\n<p>King Gizzard &#038; the Lizard Wizard started <a href=\"https:\/\/bootleggizzard.bandcamp.com\/album\/live-in-oregon-24\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">the night<\/a> off with the song &#8220;The Dripping Tap&#8221; which includes the lyric &#8220;the dripping tap won&#8217;t be turned off by the gods up above us&#8221;, and they weren&#8217;t wrong. Over an inch of rain fell during their set, and while an inch doesn&#8217;t sound like much, it meant that we were standing in several inches of water. Basically the venue turned into a pond or stream, depending on where exactly you were standing.<\/p>\n<p>I was never so happy and miserable at the same time. I also learned that waterproof gear is only temporarily waterproof in certain conditions.<\/p>\n<p>And the setlist? Three songs off of &#8220;PetroDragonic Apocalypse&#8221; and two off of &#8220;Infest the Rats&#8217; Nest&#8221; made for a very metal evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;I was more wet in my clothes than at any other time in my life. King Gizzard &#038; the Lizard Wizard started the night off with the song &#8220;The Dripping Tap&#8221; which includes the lyric &#8220;the dripping tap won&#8217;t be turned off by the gods up above us&#8221;, and they weren&#8217;t wrong. Over an inch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[413,1266,134,893,890,179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33879"}],"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=33879"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33886,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33879\/revisions\/33886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}