{"id":271667,"date":"2025-05-16T16:18:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T23:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=271667"},"modified":"2025-05-22T22:36:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T05:36:25","slug":"rise-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=271667","title":{"rendered":"Rise."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/rise-festival-2025.jpg\" alt=\"rise festival 2025\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>The first time I went to <a href=\"https:\/\/risefestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rise<\/a> was a magical experience. So much has happened since then&#8230; The pandemic, all my grandparents passed away, three of my dear friends got breast cancer, our dog died, I had a stroke, I like hockey now LOL.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZhXRFS_r2kc?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"435\" height=\"244\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The musical artist who performed when I went was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xNVZ4fzkSu8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vancouver Sleep Clinic<\/a>, a band I knew and reminded me of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GhDnyPsQsB0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bon Iver<\/a>, but were relatively unknown. People def weren&#8217;t there for the musical artist. They really stepped it up for their 10-year anniversary! John Mayer (my <a href=\"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?cat=258\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">guiltiest pleasure<\/a>) and Patrick Watson (singer of my favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=37904\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sad French song<\/a>). Vegas in October, anyone?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cOVUiqTN6eY?si=sPXuNYNnN-MqZedn\" width=\"435\" height=\"245\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I want you in the worst way<br \/>\nIs the gate code still your birthday?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XZfyyk0_Yqs?si=LmZd62ud9o2lgg63\" width=\"435\" height=\"245\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Et quand tu es seule pendant un instant<br \/>\nRamasse-moi quand tu voudras<br \/>\nEmbrasse-moi quand tu voudras<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After such an unforgettable experience at Rise, we returned the next year, and it was TERRIBLE. It was raining that weekend, and we kept checking to see if the event was canceled, but they kept saying it was still happening, just to arrive earlier, because they were gonna do the initial rise of the lanterns earlier because of the weather. So we arrived early, trudged through mud because it was raining in the desert, hours passed with no update, and while I was waiting in line for a hot dog LOL, an announcement came over the speakers that the event was canceled, and we had to leave immediately and could not take the lanterns with us. Everyone was PISSED. Nobody who goes to this event actually lives in Vegas, so everyone had travelled just for this festival.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/dawsons-creek-james-van-der-beek.gif\" alt=\"dawson ugly crying gif\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t mind so much if the event got rained out again this year, as long as John Mayer and Patrick Watson still performed. The rain would mask my tears (though nothing can hide my ugly crying face \ud83d\ude05).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I went to Rise was a magical experience. So much has happened since then&#8230; The pandemic, all my grandparents passed away, three of my dear friends got breast cancer, our dog died, I had a stroke, I like hockey now LOL. The musical artist who performed when I went was Vancouver Sleep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,227,248],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concerts","category-music","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271667"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271736,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271667\/revisions\/271736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}