{"id":4132,"date":"2011-05-16T09:25:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T09:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2011-05-16T09:25:54","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T09:25:54","slug":"i-can-only-hope-to-be-this-awsome-when-im-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/16\/i-can-only-hope-to-be-this-awsome-when-im-65\/","title":{"rendered":"I can only hope to be this awsome when I&#8217;m 65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Waters and David Gilmour have been involved in a bitter stand-off for a number of years but were reunited once again for a gig at London&#8217;s O2 Arena. Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason was also on stage for the tour&#8217;s first of six nights in London, on May 12th. Gilmour&#8217;s surprise appearance was as a thank you to Waters who had previously accompanied him at a small charity gig. The solo tour sees The Wall being played live in the UK for first time in 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>I have tickets to go see the show on the 17th. I missed out on the reunion gig, dagnabbit, but I&#8217;m still really looking forward to seeing the show.<\/p>\n<p>And I know that I&#8217;m never going to be that awsome when I&#8217;m in my sixties.<\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/16\/i-can-only-hope-to-be-this-awsome-when-im-65\/&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4132 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/waters-wright-gilmour1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/waters-wright-gilmour1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"4133\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/16\/i-can-only-hope-to-be-this-awsome-when-im-65\/waters-wright-gilmour1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/waters-wright-gilmour1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"417,267\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"waters-wright-gilmour1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/waters-wright-gilmour1.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/waters-wright-gilmour2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/waters-wright-gilmour2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"4134\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/16\/i-can-only-hope-to-be-this-awsome-when-im-65\/waters-wright-gilmour2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/waters-wright-gilmour2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"379,282\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"waters-wright-gilmour2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/waters-wright-gilmour2.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Waters and David Gilmour have been involved in a bitter stand-off for a number of years but were reunited once again for a gig at London&#8217;s O2 Arena. Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason was also on stage for the tour&#8217;s first of six nights in London, on May 12th. Gilmour&#8217;s surprise appearance was as&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/16\/i-can-only-hope-to-be-this-awsome-when-im-65\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;I can only hope to be this awsome when I&#8217;m 65&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-4132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pink-floyd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-14E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4132"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4138,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4132\/revisions\/4138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}