{"id":8967,"date":"2014-09-29T12:17:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=8967"},"modified":"2014-09-29T12:17:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:17:38","slug":"looking-back-fall-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/?p=8967","title":{"rendered":"Looking Back: Fall 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8968\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8968 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/billy-joel-74.jpg\" alt=\"billy-joel-74\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/billy-joel-74.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/billy-joel-74-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of 1974 &#8220;Seal&#8221; yearbook.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Billy Joel was supposed to open for Roger McGuinn at their February 8, 1974, concert at Trenton State College. But when some of Joel\u2019s band members and instruments got stuck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike because of a snowstorm, the headliner became the opening act. After a two-hour set from McGuinn, and a screening of <em>Reefer Madness<\/em> to buy more time for Joel\u2019s musicians to arrive, the other future Rock and Roll Hall of Famer on the bill that evening took the stage. Joel played his entire <em>Piano Man<\/em> album as well as many songs from <em>Cold Spring Harbor<\/em>, thanking those who stuck around for the marathon affair. It \u201cwas probably the best concert ever hosted by Trenton State,\u201d <em>Signal<\/em> reporter David Rago wrote afterward. Do you agree? Write to us at magazine@tcnj.edu with your own concert memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Joel was supposed to open for Roger McGuinn at their February 8, 1974, concert at Trenton State College. But when some of Joel\u2019s band members and instruments got stuck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike because of a snowstorm, the headliner became the opening act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall-2014","category-looking-back"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcnjmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}