{"id":34,"date":"2010-03-19T07:51:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T07:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2022-06-01T07:15:56","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T15:15:56","slug":"34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-03\/34\/","title":{"rendered":"National Tapping Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m sittin&#8217; here up late with my 74 year old, blessed father, and we&#8217;re checking out last week&#8217;s National performance on Fallon (updated below since the Fallon video is no longer available).\u00a0 It&#8217;s all relatively innocuous, but I notice he can&#8217;t take his eyes off the screen.\u00a0 And then I see my dad&#8217;s right foot tapping heavy to the rhythm as the band throttles it.\u00a0 The vantage is vintage and ineffable, and from this alone I know that I have been blessed.\u00a0 And yet I&#8217;m still checking that foot, and it is Morse-ing front row tickets to the National show.\u00a0 And there is room for belief in something bigger.\u00a0 And the band plays on.\u00a0 Tapping involuntary.\u00a0 Tapping relentless.\u00a0 Faith in humanity restored.\u00a0 And The National continue to nationalize passionate art.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The National - Terrible Love (Live on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, 2010-03-11)\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gPi-4DSgNtY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m sittin&#8217; here up late with my 74 year old, blessed father, and we&#8217;re checking out last week&#8217;s National performance on Fallon (updated below since the Fallon video is no longer available).\u00a0 It&#8217;s all relatively innocuous, but I notice he can&#8217;t take his eyes off the screen.\u00a0 And then I see my dad&#8217;s right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28926,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/28926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}