{"id":1090,"date":"2008-08-29T19:13:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T02:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2008-08-29T19:14:04","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T02:14:04","slug":"almost-obama-esque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/29\/almost-obama-esque\/","title":{"rendered":"almost obama-esque?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1091\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1091\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/imgp4862.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1091\" title=\"imgp4862\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/imgp4862-400x300.jpg?resize=400%2C300\" alt=\"Tom McCall Waterfront Park on Thursday\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1091\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom McCall Waterfront Park at Thursday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thursday night&#8217;s free OSO concert at Tom McCall Waterfront Park was a great success, as you can see from the photo above, courtesy of OSO principal violist Jo\u00c3\u00abl Belgique (who has the smallest camera I&#8217;ve ever seen!).\u00c2\u00a0 It was great to see the music lovers in our community turn out in such numbers!\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks for coming!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday night&#8217;s free OSO concert at Tom McCall Waterfront Park was a great success, as you can see from the photo above, courtesy of OSO principal violist Jo\u00c3\u00abl Belgique (who has the smallest camera I&#8217;ve ever seen!).\u00c2\u00a0 It was great to see the music lovers in our community turn out in such numbers!\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[115,25,138],"tags":[159,3666,3668,3662],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-portland","category-summer-festivals","tag-concert","tag-oregon","tag-oregon-symphony","tag-portland"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-hA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3056,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/03\/on-the-waterfront-a-m-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":1090,"position":0},"title":"on the waterfront (a.m. edition)","author":"Charles Noble","date":"September 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning we had our dress rehearsal for tonight's FREE waterfront concert at Tom McCall Waterfront Park in downtown Portland.\u00a0 Usually we have more than two rehearsals for this concert, but we were dealt half the usual four, and with lots of pieces on the program it made for quite\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;oregon&quot;","block_context":{"text":"oregon","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/oregon\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"IMG_2675","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/IMG_2675-200x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13544,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/29\/waterfront-concert-was-awesome\/","url_meta":{"origin":1090,"position":1},"title":"waterfront concert was awesome!","author":"Charles Noble","date":"August 29, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night, after a one year hiatus, the Oregon Symphony returned to Tom McCall Waterfront Park, at the west end of the Hawthorne Bridge, to play a wide selection of music for well over 10,000 area music lovers. 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