{"id":34552,"date":"2025-07-17T14:48:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34552"},"modified":"2025-07-17T14:48:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T19:48:44","slug":"its-looking-like-a-beautiful-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34552","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Looking Like a Beautiful Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This came up in my Facebook memories five years ago today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One Day Like This by Elbow. Exclusive new video by Chorlton High\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0doh-g0FsPM?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Students at a high school in England made a music video for Elbow&#8217;s &#8220;One Day Like This.&#8221;  I was thinking about this video recently (read: within the last six-nine months) and couldn&#8217;t figure out the right combination of search terms to find it.  <a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/i-worked-on-this-story-for-a-year\">I&#8230; worked on this story for a year&#8230; and&#8230; he just&#8230; tweeted it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This hit during the summer of COVID, and there was a joy to it that was needed at the time.  That <em>I<\/em> needed at the time.  Those weren&#8217;t good days, and sometimes I feel March 2020 has never ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About the same time, the <em>Live at the Ritz<\/em> album arrived.  I ordered it as soon as it was announced, and it took <em>months<\/em> to cross the Pond.  I listened to &#8220;Weightless&#8221; a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m seeing Elbow in September in DC.  First time they&#8217;ve toured the United States since a short West Coast swing in early 2020 in support of <em>Giants of All Sizes<\/em>.  It&#8217;s been a long time, and a lot has changed since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This came up in my Facebook memories five years ago today. Students at a high school in England made a music video for Elbow&#8217;s &#8220;One Day Like This.&#8221; I was thinking about this video recently (read: within the last six-nine months) and couldn&#8217;t figure out the right combination of search terms to find it. I&#8230;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34552\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;It&#8217;s Looking Like a Beautiful Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4117],"class_list":["post-34552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-elbow","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}