Add filter to Orderby Parameter using Array

Thanks karpstrucking,

This was a simple case of me needing to understand the Query better. Once I fully understood that wp_query returns a string for the sql query, it was a simply case of doing what I needed to do to correction the event_date value, concatenating on the additional title or meta_num_value and returning that.

Then I would just have to add_filter the orderby.

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