{"id":997,"date":"2006-05-06T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-06T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=997"},"modified":"2011-05-18T11:56:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T17:56:20","slug":"bono-at-music-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/bono-at-music-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Bono at Music Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/1600\/NI_05bono_06int1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5524\/1070\/320\/NI_05bono_06int1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>(Photo from DMN pool photographer)<\/em><br \/>\nIn front of a mixed crowd wearing T-shirts, flip flops and business suits, U2\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lead singer, Bono, captivated a Dallas crowd Friday night at the Music Hall at Fair Park \u00e2\u20ac\u201c without the help of his legendary rock band.<br \/>\nThe event was a fund raiser for Dallas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 World Affairs Council, with tickets going from $25 to $500.<br \/>\nBono was introduced by Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and welcomed to the stage with a thunderous standing ovation.<br \/>\nHe assured the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153loud ones in the crowd\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that the rest of his band would not be joining him for the night.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you were expecting the band, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even tell them that I do these things,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bono said as he loosened his canary yellow tie. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve become a student of the Soviet way of speech making and they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to sit through three hours of me talking about Africa.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nDonning a dark grey business suit, his trademark sunglasses and flashing the UT \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hookem,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bono told the crowd of 4,000 that he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t accustomed to wearing a tie and joked that he didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wear ties for politicians &#8212; but only for the people of Texas.<br \/>\nBono recounted his journey to becoming \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a rock star with a cause.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nAnd he encouraged Americans to make friends out of potential enemies in Africa, rather than defend against them later.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The global war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty. Collin Powell said that. And when an American military man says the American military is not enough, we need to take notice,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I know you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been through a lot with Katrina and Rita and the War in Iraq. But every generation has its defining moral struggle. This is our Omaha Beach. This is our moon shot. Our one true grab at greatness.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Bono\" rel=\"tag\">Bono<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Dallas\" rel=\"tag\">Dallas<\/a> | Music Hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo from DMN pool photographer) In front of a mixed crowd wearing T-shirts, flip flops and business suits, U2\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lead singer, Bono, captivated a Dallas crowd Friday night at the Music Hall at Fair Park \u00e2\u20ac\u201c without the help of his legendary rock band. The event was a fund raiser for Dallas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 World Affairs Council, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/bono-at-music-hall\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bono at Music Hall<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-g5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}