{"id":18544,"date":"2016-08-02T20:55:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T00:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=18544"},"modified":"2016-08-02T20:55:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T00:55:55","slug":"two-years-ago-musikfest-changed-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=18544","title":{"rendered":"Two Years Ago, Musikfest Changed My Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Gerard Longo, Valley Ledger contributor and Lehigh Valley Underground Founder, shares how Musikfest 2014 led him to a huge turnaround.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">I came to my first Musikfest as a rising Moravian College sophomore in 2007. Since then, this time of year in the Lehigh Valley has always held a certain, magical allure. Knowing that \u2018Fest is approaching, and then coming to Bethlehem during the summer to celebrate with friends, has proven to be a highlight of every single calendar year.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">It wasn\u2019t until 2014, however, that I would come to see Musikfest in a whole new light \u2013 as an event that can bring meaningful change to the lives it touches.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lehighvalleyunderground.com\/2016\/08\/01\/two-years-ago-musikfest-changed-my-life\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;\">Read the full article on Lehigh Valley Underground<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lehighvalleyunderground.com\/2016\/08\/01\/two-years-ago-musikfest-changed-my-life\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11364 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LVU-Square-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"LVU-Square\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 18pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Gerard Longo, Valley Ledger contributor and Lehigh Valley Underground Founder, shares how Musikfest 2014 led him to a huge turnaround.\u00a0 I came to my first Musikfest as a rising &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=18544\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Years Ago, Musikfest Changed My Life<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2091],"tags":[54,2823,2218,1015],"class_list":["post-18544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lvunderground","tag-bethlehem","tag-lehigh-valley-underground","tag-lvunderground","tag-musikfest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fest-mug-2014.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}