{"id":8872,"date":"2025-07-13T00:57:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/?p=8872"},"modified":"2025-07-13T00:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T05:57:18","slug":"horn-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/horn-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"Horn Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summer had brunch planned with Trent and his new gal pal, so we met them at Stoby&#8217;s. It was a relatively short meal with them and her little girl. When we got home, we packed for a night in Little Rock to watch the Drum Corps International competition. Eli came over and we got out of town a little bit later than I expected, but we were still ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We checked in to the Embassy Suites and had time to sit in on the Manager&#8217;s Reception for a couple drinks and some snacks. Then we went to dinner at Cheddar&#8217;s just a short distance from the War Memorial Stadium. It wasn&#8217;t terribly hot after the sun went down, but it was super humid with an hours-long event sitting on stadium bleachers. The bands definitely got better as the night went on, and I was surprised to learn that the Carolina Crowns were there. I was only familiar with them through one incredible YouTube video I saw nearly a decade ago. This was a much larger ensemble, but they were great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Traffic wasn&#8217;t terrible getting out, but I may have inadvertently cut somebody off. It was a short drive back to the room, and we had a mix of people crashing and cleaning up before bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I expected more drums.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer had brunch planned with Trent and his new gal pal, so we met them at Stoby&#8217;s. It was a relatively short [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82,29,36,76,57],"class_list":["post-8872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-depression","tag-family","tag-food","tag-music","tag-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8873,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8872\/revisions\/8873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallopingcow.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}