{"id":2938,"date":"2011-05-13T09:09:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T13:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=2938"},"modified":"2011-05-13T09:09:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T13:09:26","slug":"winner-guess-the-reunion-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2011\/05\/winner-guess-the-reunion-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner: Guess the reunion date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, before <strong>Roger Waters<\/strong> kicked off the North American leg of his &#8220;Wall&#8221; tour in Toronto, we held a contest encouraging you to guess which date of the tour <strong>David Gilmour <\/strong>would join Roger on stage to perform &#8220;Comfortably Numb.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We received about 90 entries, with most people favoring May 11:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Well, as it turns out, that prediction was close, but off by one day: The reunion happened at last night&#8217;s show at London&#8217;s 02, with the added bonus of <strong>Nick Mason <\/strong>joining Waters and Gilmour on stage for the show&#8217;s coda, &#8220;Outside the Wall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Two people guessed May 12, so we flipped a coin to determine our winner: <strong>Daniel Kippes<\/strong> of Cercado, Cochabamba in Bolivia.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel gets a copy of Waters&#8217; 1990 CD &#8220;The Wall Live in Berlin.&#8221; And, for guessing the exact date, we&#8217;re also throwing in a sealed copy of Classic Rock&#8217;s excellent 3D Pink Floyd issue from Fall 2009, celebrating the 30th anniversary of \u201cThe Wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Honorable mention to the other person who managed to see the future: <strong>Ron Leicht <\/strong>of Calwell, Australian Capital Territory in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Nicely done, both of you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, before Roger Waters kicked off the North American leg of his &#8220;Wall&#8221; tour in Toronto, we held a contest encouraging you to guess which date of the tour David Gilmour would join Roger on stage to perform &#8220;Comfortably Numb.&#8221; We received about 90 entries, with most people favoring May 11: Well, as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2942,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2938\/revisions\/2942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}