{"id":4978,"date":"2012-02-01T10:15:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T18:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/?p=4978"},"modified":"2012-02-01T10:16:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T18:16:54","slug":"springsteen-one-more-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/01\/springsteen-one-more-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Springsteen-One More Thing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/2012\/02\/01\/re-springsteen-tickets\/\" title=\"Re-Springsteen Tickets\">Re-Springsteen Tickets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bruce wouldn&#8217;t go to all-in pricing, he didn&#8217;t want to appear to be charging more than $100 for a ticket. So, you end up being mad at Ticketmaster, but those fees don&#8217;t go to the ticketing company, they&#8217;re promoter and building profit.<\/p>\n<p>And let&#8217;s be clear, Bruce is no worse than so many of the major acts. But when you&#8217;re a superstar and you&#8217;re known for honesty, you&#8217;re a lightning rod, all these issues come down to you.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce should take a stand. Bruce should be an agent for change.<\/p>\n<p>But he&#8217;s afraid.<\/p>\n<p>Of looking greedy.<\/p>\n<p>But the end result is all that money goes to scalpers and fans have to buy tickets on the &quot;black market&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>All that money should go to Bruce, he deserves it. So, the whole arena should be paperless. Or tickets should be scaled.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce could have been a leader here&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Re-Springsteen Tickets Bruce wouldn&#8217;t go to all-in pricing, he didn&#8217;t want to appear to be charging more than $100 for a ticket. So, you end up being mad at Ticketmaster, but those fees don&#8217;t go to the ticketing company, they&#8217;re promoter and building profit. And let&#8217;s be clear, Bruce is no worse than so many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-shows","category-music-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p96vPs-1ii","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4980,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4978\/revisions\/4980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefsetz.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}