{"id":2456681,"date":"2020-04-02T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/aspen-music-fest-hits-sour-note\/"},"modified":"2020-04-03T07:22:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T13:22:56","slug":"aspen-music-fest-hits-sour-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-music-fest-hits-sour-note\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen Music Fest hits sour note"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"29.78102189781\">\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I have been a loyal patron of the Aspen Music Festival for over 20 years, attending dozens of events every year, the highlight of my summers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">But I am disappointed that the AMF is not suspending their season this summer in the wake of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The majority of the attending patrons are in the high risk group for this virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">By bringing musicians and visitors in from around the world, AMF is jeopardizing the health of everyone in our valley.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"row at-donation at-donation-mobile p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/at-banner-paypal.jpg)\" class=\"col-xl-8 p-3 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/donate\/?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=donation&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=mid-article\">Donate<\/a><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It is naive to think we will be safer by July 16, their new proposed starting date. We are a small community that is not equip to handle the influx of this magnitude.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Just as all the ski resorts, restaurants and most businesses have had to shut down, so should the AMF for the 2020 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">It is irresponsible to do anything less.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Barbara Findlay<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"11.371985157699\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-7 pt-3 pb-4 at-4 pl-4\" readability=\"17.798507462687\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers around Aspen and Snowmass Village make the Aspen Times\u2019 work possible. 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The majority of the attending patrons are in the high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 06:25:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456706,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456681\/revisions\/2456706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}