{"id":251,"date":"2013-03-12T21:45:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T02:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2013-03-12T21:45:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T02:45:58","slug":"hug-your-fans-and-theyre-fans-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/2013\/03\/12\/hug-your-fans-and-theyre-fans-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Hug Your Fans and They&#8217;re Fans For Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tweeted that out today while watching the below. It resonated. <\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p04TYk4j0zQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When I sent the tweet, I didn&#8217;t realize that Billy Joel actually hugged the audience member &#8212; that didn&#8217;t happen until the end. I wasn&#8217;t talking about a literal hug, but the figurative idea of embracing your audiences in an incredibly meaningful way.<\/p>\n<p>While watching the video, think about how many people will, forever, think of Billy Joel in a much better light. Obviously Michael Pollack, the freshman pianist, will remember this forever. But so will his friends who helped get Joel&#8217;s attention when Pollack wanted to ask the question. So will the people who were sitting in the audience who didn&#8217;t know Pollack. And so will many of us who watched the video and shared it. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the hug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tweeted that out today while watching the below. It resonated. When I sent the tweet, I didn&#8217;t realize that Billy Joel actually hugged the audience member &#8212; that didn&#8217;t happen until the end. I wasn&#8217;t talking about a literal hug, but the figurative idea of embracing your audiences in an incredibly meaningful way. While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252,"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlewis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}